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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treasonous

Treasonous \Trea"son*ous\, a. Treasonable.
--Shak.

The treasonous book of the Court of King James.
--Pepys.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
treasonous

mid-15c., from treason + -ous. Related: Treasonously.

Wiktionary
treasonous

a. Like or in the way of treason.

WordNet
treasonous

adj. constituting treason; "a traitorous act"; "treasonable acts like sabotage" [syn: traitorous, treasonable]

Usage examples of "treasonous".

Kaden Dyle, you are hereby found guilty of collaborating with known terrorists, a treasonous offense, and by Unity Defense regulations are hereby sentenced to immediate execution.

For the treasonous speeches he has given, for the slander of our good rulers Elrad Leth and Tassis Gayle, and for his constant refusal to act for the good of Aramoor, Del Lotts will be beheaded.

He had fed them and they had gone to the stairs to eat and then Hax had brought the Guard named Robeson to the wrong corner of the kitchen for their treasonous little tete-a-tete.

Master Siherton, so good a man, murdered by Avelyn, and ranting about how the Chilichunks might be the only clue in getting to this treasonous woman and the cache of gemstones.

Earl DePaunch asked with feigned incredulity, for they all knew that the actions of Warder Constantine Presso were hardly treasonous, and were, in effect, more self-defense than anything else.

When Hayashi Sado became governor of Nagoya, he was often visited by Shibata Katsuie, and the castle soon became the seedbed of a treasonous plot.

Convicted of record falsification and treasonous delivery of archived system personas to illegal corporations.

For all his dismissal of small talk, he was using it again, deferring the evil moment when he would have to say something that Arrhae was coming to expect might be treasonous.

Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America’s most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.

Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America's most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.

If Lord X could open the Great Key, he could do a data dump, possess himself of a duplicate of the information-contents, and maybe, in a pinch, return the original, divesting himself of material evidence of his treasonous plans.

We have had word of your intrigue with certain Kymric lords, whose names I will not defame by mention here: that you have sought their treasonous collaboration.

In a long tradition of patriotism, in 1941, Foner's father was fired from his job as a state college teacher under the New York State law that prohibited state-supported teachers from engaging in seditious or treasonous speech.