Apostate (Noun)
Meaning
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The politician was branded an apostate by his former party members after he switched sides in the election.
- Many of his former comrades viewed him as an apostate for abandoning the revolutionary cause.
- The church excommunicated her as an apostate after she publicly denounced its teachings.
- The whistleblower was labeled an apostate by his colleagues for revealing the company's corrupt practices.
- The dictator's loyalists saw the general's decision to defect as an act of treachery, and he was labeled an apostate by the state-controlled media.