TRAITOROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traitorously mean? 

• TRAITOROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb TRAITOROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a disloyal and faithless manner

  Familiarity information: TRAITOROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAITOROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disloyal and faithless manner

Synonyms:

faithlessly; false; traitorously; treacherously; treasonably

Context example:

his wife played him false

Pertainym:

traitorous (having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor)

 Context examples 

“We doubt not, with the help of God, to see you very soon restored to those thrones from which you have been so traitorously thrust.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That the said Quinbus Flestrin, contrary to the duty of a faithful subject, is now preparing to make a voyage to the court and empire of Blefuscu, for which he has received only verbal license from his imperial majesty; and, under colour of the said license, does falsely and traitorously intend to take the said voyage, and thereby to aid, comfort, and abet the emperor of Blefuscu, so lately an enemy, and in open war with his imperial majesty aforesaid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty’s most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc. against the duty, etc.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)