Synonyms of sedition

sedition

noun

as in treason

formal the crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government

The leaders of the group have been arrested and charged with sedition.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• treason
• treachery
• insurrection
• revolt
• mutiny
• uprising
• insurgency
• rebellion
• revolution
• overthrow
• coup
• insurgence
• outbreak
• misprision
• coup d'état
• subversion
• rising
• sabotage
• coup d'etat

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of sedition

The verdict was postponed several times for reasons including a wait for an appeal outcome in another landmark sedition case. —Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition. —Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024

Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam are the first journalists convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. —Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

Two Hong Kong journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper were sentenced to jail on Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month in a verdict seen as a further blow to press freedom in the Chinese territory. —Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024