| 单词 | traitorous |
| 释义 | traitorous (once / 5113 pages) adj If you can't be trusted to keep your best friend's terrible secret, she's going to start thinking of you as traitorous, or completely unfaithful and unreliable. A traitor is someone who betrays the trust another person has put in him, and the adjective traitorous describes this tendency. It is traitorous when a double agent sells her country's secrets to another government: and the traitorous person risks spending her life in prison or even being executed. It's also traitorous to tell your parents that your brother broke the kitchen window, if you've sworn to him that you'll keep his secret. WORD FAMILYtraitorous: traitorously, traitorousness+/traitor: traitorous, traitors USAGE EXAMPLESReconciling Donald Trump’s traitorous behavior with how Republicans and conservatives view themselves as the party of “patriotism” and “national security” is a puzzle of sorts. Salon(Dec 22, 2016) I will mind my words, so I will not use the word traitorous. Salon(Nov 08, 2016) Indeed, there was palpable disgust and dismay in St. Louis when the traitorous Jason Heyward became the Cubs biggest offseason signee. Time(Nov 04, 2016) adj having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor a lying traitorous insurrectionist Syn faithless, treasonable, treasonous, unfaithful disloyal deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle |
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