TRAITOROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traitorous mean? 

• TRAITOROUS (adjective)
  The adjective TRAITOROUS has 1 sense:

1. having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor

  Familiarity information: TRAITOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAITOROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor

Synonyms:

faithless; traitorous; treasonable; treasonous; unfaithful

Context example:

a lying traitorous insurrectionist

Similar:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Derivation:

traitor (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

traitorousness (disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior)

 Context examples 

But Jo only turned over the traitorous pillow, and answered, in a tone which she tried to make more cheerful, No, I had Father and Mother to help me, and the dear babies to comfort me, and the thought that you and Amy were safe and happy, to make the troubles here easier to bear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"That's not for me to say," was Amy's grim reply, but her lips would smile, and there was a traitorous sparkle of the eye which betrayed that she knew her power and enjoyed the knowledge.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)