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 at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 May 2026
Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.
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Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted.
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Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Nov. 2025
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 May 2026
Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.
—
Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted.
—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for traitorous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitorous
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The charge alleges a person knowingly defrauded another by using false or misleading information to obtain money, property, credit or a loan.
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Opponents of Amendment 5 have flatly called the advertisement misleading or false.
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The infamous cyclops briefly appeared, as well as footage of Odysseus and his men battling the cannibalistic race of giants known as Laestrygonians and navigating around the treacherous whirlpool Charybdis.
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According to the hiking blog, The Hiking HI, the rock bridge can only be traversed at low tide, but can be treacherous either way.
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Employees quickly abandon systems that are slow, unreliable or difficult to use.
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But weak charging infrastructure, limited and unreliable electricity supply outside major cities, and high financing costs could constrain widespread adoption on the continent, even as investors race to build out infrastructure.
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But back in February when the court ruled against him on tariffs, the president held an angry White House press conference, calling the conservative justices who sided against him disloyal among other insults.
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The party has found a kind of rhythm, where the president breaks fundraising records, spreads the wealth around, and, in return, gets to humiliate disloyal Republicans in seats that the party can’t lose.
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This is perhaps the most perfidious practice of this sort of politics.
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The government took a genuine invitation to collaborate as a perfidious power grab.
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The French had said the British were faithless.
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Consumed by rage and betrayal, Eleanor is driven to take a bloody, supernatural revenge upon her faithless husband.
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Nyong’o also plays Clytemnestra, the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murder.
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In Strangers on a Train, Rogers played Guy's unfaithful wife, whom Bruno offers to kill.
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But several of the observations were simply untrue.
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Though there were initial reports that Mansfield was decapitated in the accident, her undertaker, Jim Roberts, later revealed that that was untrue.
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“Traitorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitorous. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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