as in inflammatory
tending to excite political disorder or insurrection
several dissidents were jailed for leading protests that the government branded as seditious
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Recent Examples of seditious
Rhodes had been convicted of seditious conspiracy after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but his sentence was commuted by Trump earlier this year.
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Salisbury was even indicted for seditious libel and faced up to 21 years in prison.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2025
Others demoted include two lawyers who helped secure seditious conspiracy convictions against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio.
—Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Four of the men were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 June 2025
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Salisbury was even indicted for seditious libel and faced up to 21 years in prison.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2025
Others demoted include two lawyers who helped secure seditious conspiracy convictions against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio.
—Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Four of the men were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seditious
Adjective
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In addition to her injury, Masters also suffers from hypothyroidism, which occurs when the thyroid gland doesn't make and release enough thyroid hormone in the bloodstream, as well as Lyme disease, an inflammatory illness usually caused by an infected tick bite.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
6 Nov. 2025
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Ye’s inflammatory remarks resulted in corporations such as Universal Music Group, Balenciaga, Gap and Adidas cutting ties with him.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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One of the official accounts, @GovPressOffice, has seen nearly 1 billion impressions on X since those first provocative posts in June, per Newsom's campaign.—
Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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But Bugonia’s provocative premise doesn’t yield a sci-fi thriller.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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French has a history of incendiary social media posts.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Oct. 2025
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But Sia filed her own documents on Tuesday, countering Bernad's claims as to her sobriety, questioning his own, and leveling a new, incendiary allegation.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Seditious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seditious. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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