traitorous

Speech parts

1. traitorous - Adjective

2. traitorous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.

Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.

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Examples

The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency - our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home. Ann Coulter

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. Han Fei

If you capture a ship, Sharpe, you keep the old name unless it's really obnoxious. Nelson took the Franklin at the Nile, an eighty gun thing of great beauty, but the navy will be damned if it has a ship named after a traitorous bloody Yankee so we call her the Canopus now. Bernard Cornwell

Sir king, I have been often accused of harbouring traitorous designs against you, but, as God in heaven is just and true, may this morsel of bread choke me if even in thought I have ever been false to you. Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. Jimmy Carter

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly. James A. Owen

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