Synonyms for informer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-fawr-mer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈfɔr mər |
Top 10 synonyms for informer Other synonyms for the word informer
Définition of informer
Origin :- late 14c., enfourmer "instructor, teacher," native agent noun from inform and also from Old French enformeor. Meaning "one who gives information against another" (especially in reference to law-breaking) is c.1500.
- noun reporter
- Not for twenty times 20,000 francs would I have them know me as the informer.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- I hold my pardon, and care not a maravedi for spy or informer.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- With mind relieved, he thanked the informer and prepared to leave the station.
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- Indeed, Thrasymachus, and do I really appear to you to argue like an informer?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- And now cheat and play the informer if you can; I ask no quarter at your hands.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- The idea that Simeon Stagg must have been the informer had at that moment got possession of his mind.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- The informer was amongst them, and Horne alone could be let into the secret of my plan.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- "There's not an informer, any way—if that's what ye mean," said the other quickly.
- Extract from : « St. Patrick's Eve » by Charles James Lever
- His informer looked at the other passengers with a questioning air.
- Extract from : « A Romance of the West Indies » by Eugne Sue
- As to my good Louise, your informer has not been made acquainted with 314 all the facts.
- Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
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