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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After death, the garden becomes more treacherous.
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For 250 years, between 1565 and 1815, the famous galleon fleet left the port of Manila for the port of Acapulco and back, traveling for months over the treacherous ocean while carrying a lucrative flow of foods, silver, fabrics and culinary traditions.
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Local computing can shorten response times and keep critical software running even when network links become unreliable.
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Existing safety tools were unreliable, so Adler decided to design a new one.
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For some, public criticism of the nation can feel disloyal or disrespectful.
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For that independence, he is increasingly treated as a disloyal outcast by members of his own party, who continue trying to push him out of the tent.
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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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When this inquiry was relayed to the Trump Administration, one Administration official told me last month, it was interpreted as a signal that Anthropic, which was then renegotiating its own contract with the federal government, was perhaps a faithless partner.
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Starring Yakusho Koji, the film follows a man released on parole after killing his unfaithful wife.
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The golden calf famously enraged Moses, showing that the Israelites had turned away from God and were unfaithful in Moses’s absence.
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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 3 Jul. 2026.
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