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

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

Moreland's daughter, Shauna, said she wanted to know why, if her mother was an informer, the state had not intervened to save her.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024

In 1990, following a police raid on a house during the interrogation of a suspected informer, he and its other members were replaced because the IRA believed the unit had been infiltrated.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

He knew nothing about Blake's real identity, but neither was he a genuine informer; the KGB worked carefully with him to feed Blake documents and other bogus intelligence, which Blake then gave to MI6.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau