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Traitorous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRA'ITOROUS, a. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.
1. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: faithless, traitorous, unfaithful, treasonable, treasonous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. guilty or capable of treason 2. constituting treason <traitorous activities> Synonyms: see faithless • traitorously adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Traitorous Trai"tor*ous, a. [Cf. F. tra[^i]treux.] 1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. --Shak. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. -- Trai"tor*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A traitorous action will betray or bring danger to a country or to the group of people that someone belongs to. ...the monstrous betrayal of men by their most traitorous companions. ...the movement could be labeled as divisive, even traitorous. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Treacherous, perfidious, faithless, false, recreant. 2. Treasonable, treacherous, seditious, perfidious, insidious.

Moby Thesaurus

Judas-like, Trojan-horse, alienated, apostate, betraying, breakaway, collaborative, deceitful, degenerate, disaffected, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, estranged, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, false, fifth-column, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineering, mutinous, perfidious, quisling, quislingistic, rebel, rebellious, recreant, renegade, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious, subversive, tergiversant, tergiversating, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turbulent, turncoat, two-timing, unfaithful, unloyal, untrue