Meaning of saboteuse | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of saboteur.

feminine, form-of

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“‘Our spies’ are heroes or better still heroines (Nurse Cavell, who was less a spy than a saboteuse) although we can of course say⟳ nothing about them until they are caught and executed.”

“Then there is Haebangt’ap (Liberation Tower, 1953), whose adolescent but motherly heroine Chŏmsun, a saboteuse in UN-occupied Pyongyang, is constantly striving to cultivate the spontaneity of her younger male comrades.”

“These conspicuous “professionals” were facilitating a more diffuse sexual/national sabotage, where abortion really represented treason, where women were the symbolic saboteuses of France.”

“I won't detail the conspiracy theories too deeply here, because I'm reluctant to give⟳ them air, but since her emergence as an NFL fan, [Taylor] Swift has been portrayed by conservative U.S. commentators as a distraction, a saboteuse, and an undercover government agent dispatched to brainwash football fans.”

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