All whistleblower synonyms

noun whistleblower

• bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
• blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
• busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
• canary — Canaries are small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
• fink — a strikebreaker.
• gossip — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
• informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
• rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
• rumormonger — a person given to spreading rumors, often maliciously.
• scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
• snitch — to snatch or steal; pilfer.
• squealer — a somewhat prolonged, sharp, shrill cry, as of pain, fear, or surprise.
• stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
• talebearer — a person who spreads gossip, secrets, etc., that may cause trouble or harm.
• taleteller — a telltale; talebearer.
• telltale — a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer.
• tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
• troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
• windbag — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
• blabber — a person who blabs
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• quidnunc — a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.
• squeaker — a person or thing that squeaks.
• stoolie — a pigeon used as a decoy.
• tabby — a cat with a striped or brindled coat.
• tattler — a person who tattles; telltale.
• whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
• gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
• peach — the subacid, juicy, drupaceous fruit of a tree, Prunus persica, of the rose family.
• polly — a tame parrot.
• ratfink — fink (defs 3, 4).
• narc — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• scab — the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
• snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
• tattletale — a talebearer or informer, especially among children.
• weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
• betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
• double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
• sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
• source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
• turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
• backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
• deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
• agent provocateur — An agent provocateur is a person who is employed by the government or the police to encourage certain groups of people to break the law, so they can arrest them or make them lose public support.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.