traitorous

traitor | American Dictionary

traitor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtreɪ·t̬ər/
a person who gives away or sells secrets of his or her country, or someone who is not loyal to particular beliefs or friends:
Benedict Arnold was a traitor during the American Revolution.
Opponents called the mayor "a traitor to the cause."

Examples of traitor

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In spite of the many and abundant bribes, the prospective traitors either were neutralized or, in most cases, did not stir.
By this period the phrase ' ' invisible government ' ' had become internalized from designating traitors to the unseen agencies affecting government policy.
These did not have to be traitors, simply those who imperilled the nation by frivolity, carelessness or a lack of patriotic commitment.
Possessors of these qualities are called loyal and those who prefer their opposites are liars and traitors.
It is mainly organized around names (of informants, contacts, addresses, suspected traitors, etc.).
In their interviews the porteurs are haunted by the charge that they were traitors.
There certainly are indications that kangaroo courts against accused ' traitors ' continued.
The whigs might have been opponents, but at least they were not traitors and renegades.
Who are cast into dungeons, and treated and tried as traitors?
The government claimed that you are traitors, but you are not.
Late in 1642 the royalists faced that problem and in a decision with wide implications conceded that they would not treat their prisoners as traitors.
We do not want the traitor, we will meet him/her at the graveyard.
According to the final commandment, anyone who did not agree with all the preceding commandments should automatically be regarded as a traitor.
Harkis have been tormented by the thought of being traitors.
He declared that he had ' not done any unsoldierly and base act ', but he met a dishonourable civilian death as a traitor.
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