The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed.
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Examples for "treason"
Examples for "treason"
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A criminal case has been opened for high treason, the FSB said.
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In every respect, the Underground Rail Road made capital by the treason.
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If you thought any different you were thinking treason, he told Reuters.
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Criticism of the conduct of the Great War was close to treason.
5
To attack the king was treason; to dispute the priest was blasphemy.
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But Sophie knew personal loss, family grief-andbetrayal?-wasa different matter entirely.
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If that happens it will be seen as the second great betrayal.
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Lawmakers hurled allegations of betrayal and abuse of power across the chamber.
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So, as long as we remain strong, we need not fear betrayal.
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Donaldson's betrayal was seen as particularly galling, given his impeccable republican credentials.
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But their perfidy had been discovered and the family destroyed decades ago.
2
Russia stands for reaction; England for selfishness and perfidy; France for decadence.
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Nothing approaching the perfidy of it could happen in the present age.
4
In every political party in the Cabinet itself, duplicity and perfidy abounded.
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He had insisted on this to present further proof of Khartoum's perfidy.
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This is false and is an attempt to create a new mythology of Irish nationalist perfidiousness.
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Their perfidiousness too well deserves such a penance.
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What, gracious God, is man, that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct!
4
The senora coquettishly bewailed, in rising and falling inflections, his long absence, his infidelity and general perfidiousness.
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They must have been the last flickerings of a conscience not quite dead to all sense of perfidiousness and fickleness.
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His captain saw this as treachery; Pietersen saw it as common sense.
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A week ago English cricket was a land of treachery and recriminations.
3
Since his treachery, the sorceress had seen Lochivan in a new light.
4
The worst feature in the character of the Assyrians was their treachery.
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But in Russia this has led to treachery of a new sort.
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He feels the game is not without an element of treachery, however.
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The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
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The eater of sacrificial libations learnt of the treachery of the frog.
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One of its dangers consists in the treachery of fellows like you.
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Even now I cannot believe in such shamelessness, in such frightful treachery.
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No, she would not burden him now with tales of possible treachery.
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The Russian people are demoralized and will undertake any treachery for money.
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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
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The Cardinal took occasion to speak of the treachery of La Riviere.
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The victory was made easier by jealousies and treachery among the Mamluks.
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You got me before by treachery; I was not looking for trouble.
