An act of deliberate betrayal.
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Examples for "treason "
Examples for "treason "
1 A criminal case has been opened for high treason , the FSB said.
2 In every respect, the Underground Rail Road made capital by the treason .
3 If you thought any different you were thinking treason , he told Reuters.
4 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.
1 His captain saw this as treachery ; Pietersen saw it as common sense.
2 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 .
5 But in Russia this has led to treachery of a new sort.
1 But Sophie knew personal loss, family grief - and betrayal ? - was a different matter entirely.
2 If that happens it will be seen as the second great betrayal .
3 Lawmakers hurled allegations of betrayal and abuse of power across the chamber.
4 So, as long as we remain strong, we need not fear betrayal .
5 Donaldson's betrayal was seen as particularly galling, given his impeccable republican credentials.
1 Her conduct would be seen as betrayal and faithlessness to Megan's rule.
2 And that, while in faithlessness , we should thus misjudge it, is well.
3 But Shakespeare makes her attempt at justification a confession of absolute faithlessness :
4 The faithlessness of his wife, and not madness, drove him into exile.
5 Yet he had evidently seen enough to satisfy himself of her faithlessness .
1 This is false and is an attempt to create a new mythology of Irish nationalist perfidiousness .
2 Their perfidiousness too well deserves such a penance.
3 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 .
5 They must have been the last flickerings of a conscience not quite dead to all sense of perfidiousness and fickleness.
1 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.
3 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.
5 He had insisted on this to present further proof of Khartoum's perfidy .
6 The hunter struck the woman dead when he learned of her perfidy .
7 I, unsuspecting creature that I was, saw no perfidy in the recommendation.
8 She offered him her hand; he took it doubtfully, fearing some perfidy .
9 One act of perfidy fully established becomes the ruin of its author.
10 Potiphar's wife surpasses all the women yet mentioned in perfidy and dishonor.
11 This has been forced upon us by the perfidy of other nations.
12 Anon you were talking, and the words you said proved your perfidy .
13 Tales and accusations of Iranian perfidy , then, snugly fit an expected stereotype.
14 With an unaccountable feeling of perfidy she straightened his cravat, while murmuring:
15 We had another instance, about this time, of the perfidy of Harlay.
16 Her confirmation of Palliser's perfidy had awakened in him no new resentment.
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