Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the character of a traitor; disloyal synonym: faithless.
- adjective Constituting treason.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Guilty of treason; in general, treacherous; perfidious; faithless.
- Consisting in treason; characterized by treason; implying breach of allegiance; perfidious: as, a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless.
- adjective Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of a
traitor ;disloyal - adjective law Constituting
treason ;treasonable orseditious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
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Examples
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Inevitably it is also about loyalty, honesty and bravery, and their often crucial roles in traitorous ...
Book Review Roundup: Werewolves, Traitors, Robbers And A Jackass Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Am I calling the traitorous illegal alien advocate?
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken's Misguided Fury on Immigration Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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Inevitably it is also about loyalty, honesty and bravery, and their often crucial roles in traitorous acts.
Book Review Roundup: Werewolves, Traitors, Robbers And A Jackass Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Inevitably it is also about loyalty, honesty and bravery, and their often crucial roles in traitorous acts.
Book Review Roundup: Werewolves, Traitors, Robbers And A Jackass Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Am I calling the traitorous illegal alien advocate?
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken's Misguided Fury on Immigration Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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And then, hints began to break out, very hard to bear, that I had indulged in traitorous alliances and was an unworthy child of my house.
Daisy in the Field 1869
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Am I calling the traitorous illegal alien advocate?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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"eliminate" as many supporters of what he called the traitorous Pakistani regime as possible.
Free Internet Press 2009
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"Our Kind Of Traitor" By John LeCarre Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Inevitably it is also about loyalty, honesty and bravery, and their often crucial roles in traitorous ...
Book Review Roundup: Werewolves, Traitors, Robbers And A Jackass Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Adams showed his disdain for ordinary people (and his opposition) when as president he signed into law the Patriot Acts (I and II) of his day - the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to protect the country from dangerous aliens (today's "terrorists") and that criminalized any criticism of his administration (the kind George Bush calls traitorous).
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