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
- ‘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).