How to Use traitorous in a Sentence

traitorous

adjective

• Bond wrecks a traitorous flight crew one dead spy at a time.
  — OregonLive.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• Rhaenys points her steed right at the new monarch and his entire traitorous Targaryen branch.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• In order to make up for her traitorous past, Rosalind works as a spy for her country.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• The crowd was comparing notes: Had anyone even seen this traitorous Jan Moir?
  — Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• For Le Carré, Philby’s traitorous life could have been his own.
  — Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Even those traitorous neighbors themselves, trapped in the same grim system.
  — Stephen Vincent Benét, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2022
• In a traitorous turn of events, Weff fatally shoots Defy and Swanee.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• In Lee’s case, to the contrary, the Justice Department finds that traitorous intent is not an element of the offense.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• Hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen, the reunion will bring the debut cast together for the first time since the traitorous finale.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
• Others, though, saw it as traitorous amid tensions between the two countries.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• Somewhere distant from her traitorous body, a covert part of her mind slipped away to calculate her advantage.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 25 Jan. 2021
• From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat's traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Gilead's rulers want to keep things low-key, especially given Fred's traitorous turn, but Serena wants to go big.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
• As the fighting in the east has raged, their sermons are often seen as overly forgiving of Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine, or even traitorous.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• To his wife and best pal, who have never known a black college man, the possibility that Bowzie might renege on Fisk seems insane, almost traitorous.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• The traitorous Confederate flag being carried through the halls of Congress.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• The hyperbole that met his withdrawal from the Paris agreement — a traitorous act of war against the American people, America just resigned as leader of the free world, etc.
  — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
• In one of the greatest revenge stories of all time, Edmond escapes from prison, collects an enormous fortune, and gets his sweet vengeance on the traitorous Fernand and his accomplices.
  — EW.com, 31 May 2024
• Many on Pakistani Twitter decried her as shameful and traitorous.
  — chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• But her harshest critics describe those actions as traitorous, having put deployed U.S. troops at risk.
  — Andrew Degrandpre, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• The clear message is that any Democrats hostile to this Republican hero are vicious, misjudged and borderline traitorous.
  — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
• Two more Ts are thus added to Holton’s roster of American grievances: traitorous slaves and treacherous Indians.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• Horowitz will surely protest loudly that the leftist Democrats and traitorous Republicans are canceling his speech.
  — Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
• Lightly cloaked in the guise of fiction, Clinton’s onetime opponent appears in these pages as careless, stupid, dangerous and traitorous.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
• Thus, those who support Trump, or who oppose the factions Democrats favor in Ukraine, are depicted not just as political adversaries but as traitorous agents of Putin.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
• But in June 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo at a meeting with other underground leaders, having been betrayed most likely by a traitorous member of the Resistance.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2020
• However, that turnabout is nothing compared with McCarthy’s head-snapping response to the violent and traitorous events of Jan. 6.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Spencer’s personality and politics both played a part in his defeat; Whigs felt that his decision to accept a spot in Tyler’s cabinet was traitorous.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• One Atlanta critique argued the show was somehow traitorous, creating Black stories for a non-Black audience.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• Not to give too much credence to those old accusations of Alice Walker and Black feminists being traitorous man-haters, but there is a more visible effort, here, to put forth a more complicated vision of men.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024