Adjective : a traitorous act. From Dictionary.com.
King Richard being thus traitorously taken, and solde to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Her chin was quivering traitorously as she dismounted beside the corral. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Fiddler]
It was neither studiedly cold, nor absurdly brief, nor traitorously tremulous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
As she pulled on her clothes her body chose traitorously to remind her that, if nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Lesson To Learn]
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Brauchli: Classroom Guards] Reference
Face it, she warned herself as her thoughts traitorously refused to respond to her exhortations. From Wordnik.com. [A Time to Dream]
Worse, they have clearly, deliberately and traitorously acceded all powers and authority to Downing Street. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
They, and such as they, are like mad dogs -- cowardly and felon -- who traitorously bring to death men better than themselves. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Every time a British battle-ship was sunk by the Argentinos, I cheered traitorously, "teach the British colonialists a lesson!". From Wordnik.com. [Pro Patria Mori?] Reference
But when the day of danger was past, and the slave applied for the fair guerdon, the Shaykh traitorously refused to keep his word. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Politically Lancelot Vane might be incapable of treason, but where love was concerned -- well, had he not acted traitorously towards her?. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
There has never been a time an American history when our Constitutional Republic has been so traitorously and devastatingly attacked from within. From Wordnik.com. [Is our only defense against a 4th Reich, a 3rd Political Party?] Reference
In the same year, the legislature passed a bill of attainder against a number of men who had “traitorously and wickedly” gone over to the king. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
De Lagny was accused but a year after of traitorously yielding to the emperor a fortress under his command, and he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [The False Rhyme] Reference
Pennsylvania and District aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, wickedly and traitorously did intend to levy war against the United States within the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
It even used our sugar quota, which was around 3.5 million tons, to bribe many Latin American governments, which traitorously supported the economic blockade against Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO ON LATIN AMERICAN DEBT, PRC'S ECONOMY,] Reference
Paul hadn't expected to sleep on Saturday night, but the sanctuary of unconsciousness had quickly tempted him in and traitorously brought the morning to him all the sooner. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
And some pinko elements from within our own citizenry (he was for the Vietnam War before he was against it) acted traitorously to undermine our will to continue the struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Rumsfeld To Resign] Reference
We asked that the government should hold our enemy while we punched him; and while they traitorously proclaimed their neutrality, they refused this simple request for fair play. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Henry II., in 1162, of having traitorously suffered the royal standard of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
I thought righties claimed that was defiling the flag and traitorously anti-American?. From Wordnik.com. [Sadly, No!] Reference
Heretofore they must have been traitorously below their duty, or now mutinously beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
I coveted upon earth, traitorously emptied it, and substituted a heart-corroding poison in its stead?. From Wordnik.com. [Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3] Reference
Both Buonaparte and Quenza were enraged with Paoli's nephew, declaring him to have acted traitorously. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
It alleged the publication and delivery by Ralegh to Cobham of a book traitorously devised against the. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
The troops of the Maharajah of Chanidigot traitorously went over to the enemy and that decided the day against us. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Conquest of England] Reference
Before these was Zacharias accused of a design to betray their polity to the Romans, and having traitorously sent to. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem] Reference
Whereas there has been wickedly and traitorously printed and published this morning in the New York World and New York Journal of. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865] Reference
I accused her father, I cursed her brother for having left me in ignorance of the insult which had so traitorously been put upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Those rebels, not satisfied with traitorously resisting the constituted authorities of their country, have desolated the face of it. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
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