When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
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Confidant
//ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt//
Synonyms for "confidant" (60 found)
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Related words (30)
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41 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- верен приятел noun (person in whom one can confide)
- довереник noun (person in whom one can confide)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 密友 noun (person in whom one can confide)
- 知己 noun (person in whom one can confide)
Czech
1 entries- důvěrník noun (person in whom one can confide)
Danish
1 entries- fortrolig noun (person in whom one can confide)
Dutch
2 entries- vertrouweling noun (person in whom one can confide)
- vertrouwelinge noun (person in whom one can confide)
Egyptian
4 entries- G35-q:D54-F34:Z1 noun (person in whom one can confide)
- Hr:r-s-S:t*tA noun (person in whom one can confide)
- V22:Y1-F34:Z1 noun (person in whom one can confide)
- m-H-D38:k noun (person in whom one can confide)
Finnish
1 entries- uskottu noun (person in whom one can confide)
French
2 entries- confident noun (person in whom one can confide)
- confidente noun (person in whom one can confide)
German
1 entries- Vertrauter noun (person in whom one can confide)
Hungarian
3 entries- bizalmas barát noun (person in whom one can confide)
- kebelbarát noun (person in whom one can confide)
- kebelbarátnő noun (person in whom one can confide)
Icelandic
4 entries- rún noun (person in whom one can confide)
- rúna noun (person in whom one can confide)
- trúnaðarmaður noun (person in whom one can confide)
- trúnaðarvinur noun (person in whom one can confide)
Ido
1 entries- konfidencario noun (person in whom one can confide)
Irish
4 entries- anamchara noun (person in whom one can confide)
- cara rúin noun (person in whom one can confide)
- rúnaí noun (person in whom one can confide)
- rúnchara noun (person in whom one can confide)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بطانه noun (person in whom one can confide)
- ناموس noun (person in whom one can confide)
Polish
4 entries- powierniczka noun (person in whom one can confide)
- powiernik noun (person in whom one can confide)
- zausznica noun (person in whom one can confide)
- zausznik noun (person in whom one can confide)
Portuguese
1 entries- confidente noun (person in whom one can confide)
Russian
2 entries- дове́ренное лицо́ noun (person in whom one can confide)
- напе́рсник noun (person in whom one can confide)
Spanish
1 entries- confidente noun (person in whom one can confide)
Tagalog
1 entries- kapalagayang-loob noun (person in whom one can confide)
Turkish
2 entries- dert ortağı noun (person in whom one can confide)
- sırdaş noun (person in whom one can confide)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He is my boss's friend and confidant.
Source: tatoeba (297882)
Madame de Pompadour was the King' confidant.
Source: tatoeba (8187125)
If you want to vent, leave me alone and find yourself a confidant!
Source: tatoeba (9150382)
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