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noun

apostate

a disloyal person who betrays or deserts their cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

In a sentence

Six example sentences with apostate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Once the party's loudest campaigner, she was branded an apostate the week she joined the rival caucus.

    Politics

  • The band's founder became an apostate to the punk scene he built, signing with the label he once mocked.

    Music

  • Chroniclers called the general an apostate after he abandoned the alliance he had sworn to defend and joined its enemies.

    History

  • Colleagues treated the engineer as an apostate when he left the open-source project to join the company it was built to replace.

    Technology

  • Fans branded him an apostate the day he signed with the rival across the river after promising to retire at home.

    Basketball

  • The Stoics called him an apostate after he abandoned their teaching and began lecturing for the rival school.

    Philosophy

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