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UK
/tɹˈiːzən/
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[ US /ˈtɹizən/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹizən/ ]
NOUN
- a crime that undermines the offender's government
- disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
- an act of deliberate betrayal
How To Use treason In A Sentence
- This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst. The Sun
- Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable. The Worldly Philosophers
- She was arrested and charged with treason, a capital offence, but made no attempt to deny her actions. Times, Sunday Times
- This criticism that Romney seems to dish out with impunity is bording on TREASON ..... Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops
- The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. May 2005
- Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
- (Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
- But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
- Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
- But the autumn of 1945 was not a time noted for sensitivity to the legal niceties of high treason.