informer

Example Sentences

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There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

"I think that's probably the only way it's going to be solved - someone on the inside becomes an informer."

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025

He had lived across the street from DeLorean’s home in San Diego County and had turned informer in hopes of leniency.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

A customer at a reptile trade show turned out to be a federal informer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Because he was still serving a sentence at Kansas State Penitentiary, and therefore was in danger of retaliation from other inmates, Wells had never been publicly identified as the informer.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote