Traitorsome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Traitorsome is an adjective meaning Characteristic of a traitor; traitorous.
Meaning
Characteristic of a traitor; traitorous.
Example Sentences
And now, Miss Moggy you must take a solemn oaph on de Bible.' “'Oh, never mind, Ann, I'm not going to betray your confidence.” “'Git de Bible, else I won't tell you what passed sence, betwixt Miss Guttrude and dat traitorsome colonel.”
Instead, these were performed by Frenchmen and exiles, as Pandolfini promptly reported: “Immediately after the affair of Lorenzo the traitorsome Frenchmen in company with members of the Strozzi household went to the Volterrans' lodgings and took all the letters and writings they found there, nor could I discover what the letters were.”
Winston Churchill, for example, had written a book only two years earlier in which he painted a fairly scathing picture of the settler community in Nairobi, a city he characterized as thoroughly “South African” as a way of not-so-subtly implying the settlers to be a traitorsome bunch of Boers who were likely to revolt against the good English rule of law.
Synonyms for traitorsome
Depending on context, synonyms include recreant, traitorly, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include traitor, antinational, disaffected, tyrannophobic, allegiant, tyrannophilic.
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