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adjective

Traitorous adj.

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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Etymology of 'Traitorous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traitorous" Quotes from Famous Books

... is beginning to say, when there is a bump and a terrible grating noise. The boat has struck against one of those traitorous rocks, and her rotten planks have given way. Long before they can reach the landing-place she will be full of water; there is already a stream flowing in through the rent in her side, and Tim, quiet and cool, takes in every detail of the case before Claude has begun fully to realise their condition. ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... unequal to the traitorous and hostile conspiracies which, both at home and abroad, were forming against his authority, and which were daily penetrating farther even into his own family. His brother, the earl of Kent, a virtuous but weak prince, who was then at Paris, was engaged by his sister-in-law, and by the ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume

... to find the sea. And passing across the world they came at last to where the white cliffs stood, and, coming behind them, split them here and there and went through their broken ranks to Slid at last. And the gods were angry with Their traitorous streams. ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... bank, with bared breast, and the crowd who followed him trembled for his life. He looked for a moment at the traitorous river, on which the torches dripped tears of blood, as if he saw death before him. The flood gurgled, as when a great fish strikes the water with ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish • Various

... his touch was so real that she stiffened herself against it, flinging back her head as if to throw off his hand. The mere thought of his caress was hateful; yet she felt it in all her traitorous veins. Yes, she felt it, but with horror and repugnance. It was something she wanted to escape from, and the fact of struggling against it was what made its hold so strong. It was as though her mind were sounding her body to make sure ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

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