| 单词 | fifth-columnist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfifth-columnist fifth-columnist n. frequently loosely, a traitor, a spy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government traitorc1290 treason-worker1553 treacherer1571 treacher1591 Catiline1592 patricide1593 treason-monger1746 treasonist1796 parricide1853 fifth-columnist1940 1940 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 291 If you call Stalin a bloodstained monster you must be shot as the most dangerous of Fifth Columnists. 1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence vii. 146 His enemies..accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Hapsburg fifth-columnists. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. xxviii/4 Sensational elements began to infiltrate like fifth-columnists into the work of serious novelists. 1967 W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 66 I've put him through the standard tests. He's no fifth columnist. 1971 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 1 Most of them had confessed to entering East Pakistan as fifth columnists. < as lemmas |
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