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

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

George Davis is a stool pigeon, an informer and a traitor to the German government.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple