quisling
Enemy's domestic helper
A quisling is a traitor who collaborates with an occupying enemy force, especially one who serves in a puppet government.
The word comes from Vidkun Quisling, who headed Norway's collaborationist regime under Nazi occupation during World War II.
Unlike broader terms for traitor, quisling specifically implies betraying one's country to a foreign power: The minister was denounced as a quisling for cooperating with the invaders.
One who betrays allegiance
- collaboratorOne who works jointly
- betrayerOne who breaks allegiance
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
- renegadeDeserter of a cause
Judas · rat · backstabber · double-crosser · sellout · apostate · recreant · informant
Betraying one's nation
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- perfidyDeliberate breach of trust
- disloyaltyBreach of allegiance
- double-dealingDeceptive practice of betrayal
sedition · sabotage · backstabbing · deceit · conspiracy · undermining · deception · unfaithfulness
Scandinavian coastal kingdom
- Nazi occupationWWII German military rule
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- puppet governmentRegime controlled externally
- executedCarried out or killed
war criminal · fascist · Third Reich · collaborationist · wartime · tribunal
French thermal resort town
- puppet regimeGovernment controlled externally
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
appeasement · capitulation · accommodation · submission · proxy · stooge · compliant · subservience
turncoat
One who betrays allegiance
- collaboratorOne who works jointly
- betrayerOne who breaks allegiance
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
renegade · Judas · rat · backstabber · double-crosser · sellout · apostate · recreant · informant · fink
treason
Betraying one's nation
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- perfidyDeliberate breach of trust
- disloyaltyBreach of allegiance
double-dealing · sedition · sabotage · backstabbing · deceit · conspiracy · undermining · deception · unfaithfulness · two-faced
Norway
Scandinavian coastal kingdom
- Nazi occupationWWII German military rule
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- puppet governmentRegime controlled externally
executed · war criminal · fascist · Third Reich · collaborationist · wartime · tribunal
Vichy
French thermal resort town
- puppet regimeGovernment controlled externally
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- complicityShared criminal involvement
cooperation · appeasement · capitulation · accommodation · submission · proxy · stooge · compliant · subservience
disgrace
Loss of honor
odium · stigma · pariah · outcast · opprobrium · vilification · byword · epithet · notorious · reviled
- Traitorstraitor, turncoat, betrayer, Judas, Benedict Arnold
- Q wordsquack, quail, quake, quality, quantity
- defectiondefection, defect, defector, turncoat, desertion
- political intrigueintrigue, conspiracy, treason, plot, collusion
- treasontreason, high treason, sedition, turncoat, state betrayal
- WWII OccupationNazi occupation, occupied territory, occupation zone, Vichy France, Vichy
quislingpatriot
Devoted country supporter
loyalist · freedom fighter · resistance fighter · partisan · nationalist