Informer Definition

Informer Sentence Examples

• And he gives as a crowning instance that he exposed himself to the hatred of the informer Cyprianus by preventing the punishment of Albinus, a man of consular rank.

• I now know that he has been a paid informer for many years.

• Stealing from a fellow thief, turning state informer and a host of other offenses were punished by execution.

• The conspiracy was honeycombed with treachery, and it was long a matter of dispute to whose information the government were indebted for Fitzgerald's arrest; but it is no longer open to doubt that the secret of his hiding place was disclosed by a Catholic barrister named Magan, to whom the stipulated reward was ultimately paid through Francis Higgins, another informer.

• Rashleigh, who has become an informer, is killed by Rob Roy during an attempt on Frank's life.