Crossword-Solution: TURNCOAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turncoat | n. | One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TURNCOAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who deserts one party or cause to join another | 1 answer |
| Traitorous person | 1 answer |
| Traitor, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circles | 1 answer |
| Judas Iscariot | 1 answer |
| How to make a jacket for a traitor | 1 answer |
| Edward Snowden, to some | 1 answer |
| A person who deserts one party to join an opposing one | 1 answer |
| A person who changes loyalty | 1 answer |
| Arnold, Benedict | 3 answers |
| Quisling | 5 answers |
| Double agent? | 7 answers |
| Defector | 36 answers |
| Traitor | 47 answers |
| renegade | 47 answers |
| Deserter | 52 answers |
| Apostate | 53 answers |
| Rat | 61 answers |
| Delinquent | 63 answers |
| Adver-sary | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TURNCOAT (5)
The dame wax'd hotter--"Speak out, lad, say, Must we fall in that canting caitiff's power? Shall we yield to a knave and a turncoat? Nay, I had liever leap from our topmost tower.
For a while we can surely await relief; Our walls are high and our doors are strong." This Kerr was indeed a canting thief-- I know not rightly, some private wrong He had done Sir Hugh, but I know this much, Traitor or turncoat, he suffer'd as such.
With the dawn, the de Coetlogons from the English consulate beheld the ground strewn with these badges discarded; and close by the house, a belated turncoat was still changing white for red.
Poore Hudson {28} of all was the last, For it was his disaster, He met a turncoat swore that he Was once King Charles his master; So he to London soon was brought, But came in such a season, Their martial court was then cry’d down, They could not try his treason.
His satire of the "Chameleon," though its publication was stopped by Maitland, must have been read in manuscript by many of those same "True Lords;" and though there were nobler instincts in Maitland than any Buchanan gave him credit for, the satire breathed an honest indignation against that wily turncoat's misgoings, which could not but recommend the author to all honest men.
Quotes with TURNCOAT (3)
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I have followed this rare wisdom all my days: to love the sunrise and the sundown and the morning and the evening star.
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1990–2023).