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traitorous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective traitorous has 1 sense
- traitorous(s = adj.all) faithless, treasonable, treasonous, unfaithful - having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" Derived forms noun traitor1, noun traitorousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
traitorous, a. [Cf. F. traîtreux.].
- Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
traitorous
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
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