sellout
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- noun
- /ˈsɛlˌaʊt/
- Offensive
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vendido
- After he supported the corporation's policy, many in the community called him a sellout for abandoning their shared values.
I see more sellouts than anyone else here.
- I see more sellouts than anyone else here.
- There will be people out there that that call me a sellout.
- And it makes designers and artists sound like sellouts.
- And, and some people live by this motto that they don't want to be a sellout.
- We even get people who are kind of, you know, sellouts to the multinational or meta national corporations, right?
- I'm so associate of where I came from that I always viewed it as like I'm a sellout that's bougie.
Examples
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Unfortunately, black Democrats generally have no trouble attacking black conservatives as sellouts, Aunt Thomasinas, not authentically black, etc.
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Maybe that makes me a sellout, but I don't care anymore.
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All I can say is what a sellout, just like everyone else in the conservative entertainment complex.
Blog text (26) -
You have been called a traitor, an Uncle Tom, a sellout:
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I see more sellouts than anyone else here.
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You're quite the sellout, Mark.
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One can only hope that this new generation of corporate news folks will not become total sellouts.
Blog text (12) -
When Kim Young Sam was elected in 1992, some Koreans viewed him as a sellout.
Academic text (2004) -
Boehner is a sellout and traitor to the American people, no better than his golfing buddy Obama.
Blog text (15) -
Black Republicans are called 'sellouts to their race' and are literally bullied into becoming Democrats (Colin Powell, for instance).
Blog text (12)
Synonyms
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A person who breaks the trust of their country, group, or friend to help an enemy
Antonyms
Compounds
How Loyal
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4.8
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5.9
- Offensive
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- Offensive
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8.2
- Offensive
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3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sellout for a person comes from the same idea: someone who sells their beliefs for money or gain. So a sellout is a person who betrays their friends, group, or cause for personal advantage.