How to Use treasonous in a Sentence

treasonous

adjective
  • But that lets fans who cling to their treasonous flag off way too easy.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • Paine also called for the end of hereditary monarchy, which was a treasonous act at the time.
    — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
  • This is not the first racist, treasonous plot to be uncovered in South Africa.
    — Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 6 June 2022
  • Since church and state were synonymous at the time, this was potentially treasonous.
    — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In all our history, there has never been as treasonous or shameful act by anyone in power.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024
  • There will be more local politicians who fail the integrity test and become treasonous to their constituents.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • No surprises there, since azadi is Urdu for freedom, which gave it a treasonous ring.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Now more than ever, the state can cast the opposition’s antiwar stance as treasonous.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Some daring was required in the decision, which at the time was regarded as almost treasonous.
    — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • Protests against a sitting president are no longer near treasonous, but patriotic.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • This president, who called his treasonous supporters to arms, wants our tax dollars to compensate these tyrants.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • Even hinting at the overthrow of our government is treasonous, prosecutable under the law.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 8 June 2021
  • Republicans on the county board of supervisors who signed off on the results faced death threats and were called treasonous.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The move might have been treasonous by North Florida norms and economic hardships.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • People who believe that the treasonous men who declared war on their own country should be celebrated with flags and statues are dotards.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
  • There are people sitting in prison cells for doing lesser treasonous acts against the federal government.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • When a prison is a country, the smallest children can be unwitting informers and the most prosaic acts can be treasonous.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Trump suggested on social media that the lawmakers' actions were treasonous and punishable by jail time or death.
    — Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The idea that the op-ed might be treasonous is, as Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains, nonsensical.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Trump himself then pardoned the rioters, the treasonous criminals.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Sadly, the political left has the use of the media megaphone to advance its treasonous agenda while the truth remains suppressed.
    — Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Heck, the Mario characters can't even jump without help from an ally, which is practically treasonous in a Mario game.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2017
  • For them and other proponents of the French empire, independence was treasonous.
    — Jonathan Laurence, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2015
  • By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Davis had only fleeting connections to New Orleans — and his death here clearly has no bearing on the facts of his treasonous and racist life.
    — Clancy Dubos, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • While Muigai had previously warned such a declaration would be treasonous, the state has yet to charge Odinga with any offense.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Anyway, all of the men, including the treasonous Ser Alfred, kneel behind Daemon.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Aug. 2024
  • And remember too, putting your name on the Declaration of Independence was treasonous.
    — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • In Aida’s final scene, the treasonous general Radamés, who has been interred as punishment, finds his slave princess waiting for him in the shadows.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The thought of funding and dispersing vaccines to poorer nations halfway across the globe with so many Americans in need would come across to many as either inept or even treasonous.
    — CNN, 26 Feb. 2021

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