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
Simultaneously, Hal is on a call with President Rayburn to brief him on Penn's traitorous schemes.
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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
Amid this chaos, Penn shows up in London, subtly manipulating British Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) into keeping the whole traitorous scheme under wraps.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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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
Amid this chaos, Penn shows up in London, subtly manipulating British Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) into keeping the whole traitorous scheme under wraps.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitorous
Adjective
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To illustrate, in the United Kingdom vaccinations took a considerable dip in the early 2000s after Wakefield’ false claims of a link between the MMR shot and autism were posted in the media.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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In those documents, West discussed not only how to conduct experiments to implant false memories, instill specific mental disorders, and induce trance states, but also how to hide them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Whiteout conditions are possible and could make travel conditions treacherous and potentially life-threatening.—
Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
4 Mar. 2025
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The climate, meanwhile, continues on a treacherous path of warming.—
Brent Crane,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After the first round of tariffs earlier this month, China’s retaliatory measures included raising duties on certain U.S. energy imports and putting two U.S. companies on an unreliable entities list that could restrict their ability to do business in the Asian country.—
Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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The challenge is that the hands-on nature of these tasks can lead to unreported problems and unreliable data, exacerbating costly inefficiencies.—
Jairam Ranganathan,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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She’s hurt by a lover’s betrayal, but more hurt that her suspicions of his disloyal nature were proven right from the beginning.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
24 Feb. 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
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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Once lost, now found, Ms. Brady offered the closing prayer as the smell of meatloaf promised lunch for the faithful and faithless alike.—
Moriah Ratner,
New York Times,
24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The New Yorker story alleged that Willingham had a reputation for drinking too much, being unfaithful and physically abusing Stacy.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Medieval scholars – all men – defined women’s temperament in negative terms: Women were libidinous, frivolous, unfaithful, capricious, unpredictable and easily tempted.—
Joelle Rollo-Koster,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For the people affected by these disasters, the idea that real estate is a perfectly safe way to store wealth is clearly untrue.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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But his explosive claim is apparently untrue in any event: The investigation began under one of Williams’s predecessors more than a year before Adams turned on Biden (the mayor had previously backed both Biden and sanctuary-city policies).—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Traitorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitorous. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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