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- noun Plural form of
quisling .
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Sometimes they're called quislings, or kapos or Uncle Ruckus.
d r i f t g l a s s 2009
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February 11th, 2009 1: 22pm looks like the lines are being drawn here with people who want their freedom and lives back against the age old doctrine of our way or no way and a collection of quislings, which is nothing new. whats hard to work out as the swords are drawn from the sheath is who'll side with who in this country as by the looks of it europe is decided. when all this is over and the pale desperate traitors await their fate in a bleak cell how they'll wish they would have backed a different horse when the stakes were so high. all they will be left with are their politically correct slogans ringing in their ears like the echoes of some rally and its zealots long gone. think again while the clock is ticking. tommy
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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George Galloway has attacked the IFTU as "quislings" and described the tearful descriptions of one of their members of life under Saddam as "a party trick".
For once ... Laban 2005
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In effect, by working with the occupying forces, the "quislings" were aiding and abetting the neo-con project.
Archive 2007-08-01 Garry 2007
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In effect, by working with the occupying forces, the "quislings" were aiding and abetting the neo-con project.
We Can't Turn Them Away Garry 2007
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George Galloway has attacked the IFTU as "quislings" and described the tearful descriptions of one of their members of life under Saddam as "a party trick".
Archive 2005-01-09 Laban 2005
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When Lewis calls witches "quislings", he seems most disgusted by their apostasy - by their bad faith.
F.Q. 2 2004
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Teachers could therefore demand a boycott with immunity; and at the same time give vent to resentments by denouncing as 'quislings' and 'collaborators' those who took part in elections to the 'dummy councils'.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 23 Ray Esther 1969
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When a group of middle-of-the-road GOP legislators recently followed suit, state party Chairman Tony Sutton caused a stir by denouncing them as "quislings," a word linked to a Norwegian Nazi collaborator.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Many hardliners have preferred to have no dealings with preservationists, considering them the natural enemies of modernism - the late critic Martin Pawley blasted those who campaigned for modernist conservation as "quislings", who were selling their futurist birthright for heritage largesse.
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