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UK
/kwˈɪslɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkwɪzɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɪzɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
How To Use quisling In A Sentence
- He had used a false name to insult elderly constituents and label unionists as quislings, the cybernat insult of choice. Times, Sunday Times
- He taught me about the Battle of the Boyne and Cromwell's massacres, about quislings and Black-and-Tans.
- The aim of the conference was to begin consolidating a quisling regime to install after the invasion.
- Genuine democratic and social renewal within the Balkans can never take place under the political tutelage of the Western powers and their local quislings.
- Humour, even during war, and illness, are not missing; nor is irony: the first patient to be successfully dialysed and live was a Quisling who had become ill in gaol after the Liberation.
- I lend a hand with the marking and feel like a snotty quisling. Times, Sunday Times
- His government was replaced by one of quislings.
- They think of him as a quisling, a nuisance and a dangerous acquaintance.
- But so far the guerilla resistance has eschewed such random violence that hit civilians and instead has concentrated its attacks on U.S. troops and those it considers quislings.
- - The head of Minnesota Democrats is questioning his GOP counterpart's use of the word "quisling" to describe Republicans who aren't supporting their party's gubernatorial candidate. StarTribune.com rss feed