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fifth columnist

NOUN
  1. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

How To Use fifth columnist In A Sentence

  • Some opposition politicians and businessmen are also taking on the role of the fifth columnists.
  • But the realisation that the refugee community was not riddled with spies and fifth columnists helped to soften official attitudes.
  • Insurrectionists, traitors and fifth columnists were a feature of our political landscape.
  • Depending on ideological preference, people blamed politicians or generals, Communist agitators or Fascist fifth columnists, school-teachers or industrialists, the middle classes or the working classes.
  • Meanwhile, President Obama must deal with the inheritance from the past with fifth columnist "left-behinds" in every corner of his administration, not to mention a moronically strident Republican "followership" prattling the fevered imaginings of Boss Tweed Limbaugh and the rest of the naughty boys and girls on Fox, stirring up anger, fear, race hatred, and, yes, sedition. Sack Rahm
  • The army immediately assumed crisis mode and denied any connections between Hasan's religious beliefs and his actions, they summarily dismissed the idea of misfeasance in ignoring warnings of a potential fifth columnist in their midst, and they are now instructing high level officers to sing from the Political correctness hymnbook as General Casey now yammers on about the glories of diversity and that this is the strength of our great republic. Undefined
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