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.
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  • 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
  • As far as I am concerned, he is a pinko, quisling traitor.
  • At the Coloured University of the Western Cape, students have been consistently resisting a "quisling" Students APARTHEID AND THE COLOURED PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA(1)
  • One forgets the power that comes with these quisling positions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The handover is the occupation with a Quisling face and no matter what we say, opposition to it will only grow when they realize what a bum deal they're getting.
  • The term "quisling" is now applied to any person who betrays their country to, and collaborates with, an enemy. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • They combined military threats and punishing sanctions to destabilise Yugoslavia with the creation of a quisling pro-Western opposition movement they have funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
  • Unlike Vietnam, we are backing strong, independent leaders, rather than quislings and puppets whose power base rests with our military forces and economic support.
  • To this day Quisling's surname is shorthand for a politician willing to sell out his own country to the worst predators, if it looks like that might save his own interests. A Quisling Turkey
  • Then, as now, the occupiers say they were invited to stay by the very quislings they installed.
  • If things were going really badly, and we had a quisling Government in this country - what would he have done?
  • - The head of the Minnesota GOP on Thursday said he didn't intend a Nazi comparison when he used the word "quisling" to describe Republicans who are breaking with their party's gubernatorial candidate. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • 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.
  • But the coincidence of maps, girls, and rocketfalls has entered him silently, silent as ice, and Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways to freeze him. Gravity's Rainbow
  • The Norwegians—who gave us the term "quisling"—awarded former President Jimmy Carter the Peace Prize Hullabaloo
  • The dictionary definition of "quisling" is a traitor. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • By which we ought to mean, the country will be in the hands of a puppet government, a government of quislings and collaborators, a government of pullovers and pushovers.
  • During the 1976-83 period, operations included the assassination of police informers and perceived quislings, bank robberies and attacks on the security forces and police stations.
  • But: marxist "is not a modifier for" quisling "- they are freestanding faults in his panoply of faults. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • In English, ‘quisling’ has since come to denote collaboration with the enemy.
  • Clark also wrote the disgusting recent CiF piece calling for the "quisling" Iraqi translators to be denied asylum. 2007 Weblog Awards: Anti-War Left Crush Dale and Co
  • This won't be a quisling government making these choices.
  • Most quislings come from the chattering classes, from academics and intellectuals.
  • Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version.
  • He's undermined our ability to stand up - we'll just be seen as potential traitors and quislings.

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