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Fifth columnist

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    someone who belongs to a group that secretly undermines another organization

    "In both cases audiences can listen to the characters and actually hear them simply because both characters are not who they seem to be; they are fifth column-ists, interlopers in the battlefield of sexual politics. If a homosexual character or a real woman gave the speeches that Andrews and Hoffman gave they would be written off as crackpots by the movie-going public."

  2. 2
    a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader wordnet

Etymology

From fifth column + -ist.

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