How to Use traitorous in a Sentence

traitorous

adjective
  • Rhaenys points her steed right at the new monarch and his entire traitorous Targaryen branch.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Even those traitorous neighbors themselves, trapped in the same grim system.
    — Stephen Vincent Benét, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2022
  • In order to make up for her traitorous past, Rosalind works as a spy for her country.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Others, though, saw it as traitorous amid tensions between the two countries.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • For Le Carré, Philby’s traitorous life could have been his own.
    — Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Somewhere distant from her traitorous body, a covert part of her mind slipped away to calculate her advantage.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 25 Jan. 2021
  • But seeing the speed with which Homelander zaps a hole in one traitorous employee’s head scares her into staying.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • Many on Pakistani Twitter decried her as shameful and traitorous.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • In a traitorous turn of events, Weff fatally shoots Defy and Swanee.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Gilead's rulers want to keep things low-key, especially given Fred's traitorous turn, but Serena wants to go big.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And somewhere between them on the war/peace continuum sit the men on Rhaenyra’s borderline traitorous council.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The traitorous Confederate flag being carried through the halls of Congress.
    — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Horowitz will surely protest loudly that the leftist Democrats and traitorous Republicans are canceling his speech.
    — Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
  • This was a sharp departure from a tradition under which those who reported crimes by fellow Haredim were viewed as traitorous informers.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • As the fighting in the east has raged, their sermons are often seen as overly forgiving of Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine, or even traitorous.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • To his wife and best pal, who have never known a black college man, the possibility that Bowzie might renege on Fisk seems insane, almost traitorous.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Lightly cloaked in the guise of fiction, Clinton’s onetime opponent appears in these pages as careless, stupid, dangerous and traitorous.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Announcers—conditioned to steer fans to feel a certain way about characters on the show—gently suggested his selfish or traitorous tendencies to deaf ears.
    — Martin Douglas, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen, the reunion will bring the debut cast together for the first time since the traitorous finale.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In Lee’s case, to the contrary, the Justice Department finds that traitorous intent is not an element of the offense.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The clear message is that any Democrats hostile to this Republican hero are vicious, misjudged and borderline traitorous.
    — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
  • From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat's traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026
  • One Atlanta critique argued the show was somehow traitorous, creating Black stories for a non-Black audience.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Spencer’s personality and politics both played a part in his defeat; Whigs felt that his decision to accept a spot in Tyler’s cabinet was traitorous.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
  • In one of the greatest revenge stories of all time, Edmond escapes from prison, collects an enormous fortune, and gets his sweet vengeance on the traitorous Fernand and his accomplices.
    — EW.com, 31 May 2024
  • Simultaneously, Hal is on a call with President Rayburn to brief him on Penn's traitorous schemes.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The hyperbole that met his withdrawal from the Paris agreement — a traitorous act of war against the American people, America just resigned as leader of the free world, etc.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017

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