as in false
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
when our coach took a job at a rival college, a few traitorous players went right along with him
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Recent Examples of traitorous
And somewhere between them on the war/peace continuum sit the men on Rhaenyra’s borderline traitorous council.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
Simultaneously, Hal is on a call with President Rayburn to brief him on Penn's traitorous schemes.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Assassinations first target Republicans deemed traitorous.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
But seeing the speed with which Homelander zaps a hole in one traitorous employee’s head scares her into staying.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 13 June 2024
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
Simultaneously, Hal is on a call with President Rayburn to brief him on Penn's traitorous schemes.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Assassinations first target Republicans deemed traitorous.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
But seeing the speed with which Homelander zaps a hole in one traitorous employee’s head scares her into staying.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 13 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitorous
Adjective
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But the jitters still shook him, a false-start whistle blowing on his first 40-yard attempt at February’s NFL combine.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2025
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Sanchez and her co-conspirators created false documents for the victims, including Permanent Residence cards and Social Security cards, and helped the victims find employment in the Hartford area.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The match ended when Heyman turned on both Punk and Reigns with a pair of treacherous low blows on each.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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In February, Star residents and City Council members clashed over competing needs for a new school and improvements to a treacherous road, with the school proposal winning out.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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All such theories, however, have appeared to be unreliable and speculative since any first strikes would have to contend with the risk of an enemy launch on warning as well as sufficient systems surviving for a devastating riposte.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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Some customers worry Crusoe’s cloud system is unreliable.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Any policy that deviates from the central government’s could be seen as politically disloyal.—
Vivian Wang,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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That is part of a broader push to dismantle or remake institutions that are considered by the administration to be wasteful, disloyal or standing in the way of its objectives.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Jake Gyllenhaal is his foil as the perfidious Iago, who goads Othello into unreasoning jealousy with lies about his beloved Desdemona (Molly Osborne).—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Since then, Putin has sought instead to rally the public to the defense of a motherland besieged by the perfidious and cunning West.—
Leon Aron,
The Atlantic,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Intriguingly, the researchers found that these unfaithful chains-of-thought were, on average, longer than faithful ones, suggesting the omissions weren't merely for brevity.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
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The play, which was co-produced by Burruss and her longtime husband Todd Tucker, is a tragedy about a commander who is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, those statements are untrue, said Dean Baker, senior economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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The results, published on March 12 in the Journal of Health Psychology, suggest adding bad sleep quality on top of existing issues like depression can make people more susceptible to patently untrue conspiracies.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Traitorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitorous. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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