traitorous
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/icons/point.icon FAITHLESS, FALSE, DISLOYAL, TRAITOROUS, TREACHEROUS, PERFIDIOUS mean untrue to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
FAITHLESS applies to any failure to keep a promise or pledge or any breach of allegiance or loyalty.
e.g. faithless allies
FALSE stresses the fact of failing to be true in any manner ranging from fickleness to cold treachery.
e.g. betrayed by false friends
DISLOYAL implies a lack of complete faithfulness to a friend, cause, leader, or country.
e.g. disloyal to their country
TRAITOROUS implies either actual treason or a serious betrayal of trust.
e.g. traitorous acts punishable by death
TREACHEROUS implies readiness to betray trust or confidence.
e.g. a treacherous adviser
PERFIDIOUS adds to FAITHLESS the implication of an incapacity for fidelity or reliability.
e.g. a perfidious double-crosser
adjective
relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treacherous:
｟文｠ 〈行動などが〉反逆［裏切り, 謀反］の
e.g. when his traitorous actions were discovered, he was imprisoned.
DERIVATIVES
traitorously |ˈtrād(ə)rəslē| adverb