quisling
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An occupying Japanese army swept into Northeastern China and, under the quisling emperor Pu Yi, established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2021
We quickly see that Travis is a quisling, the guy the officers send out to calm down those less comfortable with occupation and imprisonment.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2015
Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the 1990s styled himself self-consciously in the tradition of 19th-century Afghan heroes, Dost Mohammad and his fierce son Mohammad Akbar, rather than the seeming quisling of Kabul, Shah Shuja.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013
I am guilty about having so few of these: I know I am unorthodox, hopelessly heterosexual, a mother, quisling and secret wimp.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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