Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Treacherous; perfidious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
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- adjective Like a
traitor ;traitorous . - adverb obsolete
Traitorously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences being so capital?
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But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences being so capital?
The Winter’s Tale 2004
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Alas, alas, said Sir Launcelot, that I may not give thee one buffet for the love of Sir Tristram and of La Beale Isoud, and for the two knights that thou hast slain traitorly.
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But wit ye well, when ye are past this lodging I shall hurt you an I may, for ye slew my father traitorly.
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Sir Launcelot, thou and I shall never be accorded while we live, for thou hast slain three of my brethren; and two of them ye slew traitorly and piteously, for they bare none harness against thee, nor none would bear.
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Kay, an I wist it were thou that thus traitorly hast hurt this noble knight thou shouldst never pass my hands.
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Ganis and Sir Ector and else had I been slain traitorly.
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And there Sir Launcelot told them how cowardly and traitorly Meliagrance set archers to slay his horse, and how he was fain to put himself in a chariot.
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I beseech them all among them to find one knight that will fight for my sake with two brethren that I brought up of nought, and feloniously and traitorly they have slain me; wherefore I beseech one good knight to revenge my death.
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When Sir Sadok saw King Mark come with his sword in his hand he said thus: Beware, King Mark, and come not nigh me; for wit thou well that I saved Alisander his life, of which I never repent me, for thou falsely and cowardly slew his father Boudwin, traitorly for his good deeds; wherefore I pray Almighty Jesu send Alisander might and strength to be revenged upon thee.
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