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单词 seditious
释义

seditious

/sɪˈdɪʃəs /
adjective
Inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch: the letter was declared seditious...
  • John had reached the age, however, at which he began to question authority - not in the treasonous, seditious way Aaron and Andrew once had, but in a more innocent, juvenile way.
  • The authorities clamped down on seditious behaviour.
  • The laws of libel needed no reinforcement and proceedings for seditious or criminal libel should be used sparingly.

Synonyms

rabble-rousing, inciting, agitating, fomenting, troublemaking, provocative, inflammatory
revolutionary, rebellious, insurrectionist, mutinous, insurgent, subversive, insubordinate, civil disobedience, dissident, defiant, disloyal, treasonous

Derivatives

seditiously

/sɪˈdɪʃəsli/ adverb ...
  • ‘Here we go again’, we will mutter seditiously.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French seditieux or Latin seditiosus, from seditio 'mutinous separation' (see sedition).

Rhymes

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