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turncoat Noun a person who deserts one cause or party to join an opposing one
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The Liberal candidate,' he concluded, 'is thus a public turncoat. I might have expected naught better from a turncoat foreign knave such as thee, who once joined in the councils of De Montfort, and then betrayed his friends to curry favor with the King. |
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turncoat - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.