How to Use treasonous in a Sentence

treasonous

adjective

• But that lets fans who cling to their treasonous flag off way too easy.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
• Nothing but treasonous racists, and that's on a good day.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• This is not the first racist, treasonous plot to be uncovered in South Africa.
  — Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 6 June 2022
• Under the Sedition Act of 1918, such words were treasonous.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• Agree to a treasonous pact with a crazy knife-wielding servant?
  — David Barr Kirtley, WIRED, 14 May 2012
• Paine also called for the end of hereditary monarchy, which was a treasonous act at the time.
  — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Last year, some readers chose to note the treasonous violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2022
• The mint, considered treasonous by King Charles II, was shut down in 1682, according to the statement.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• That entire building is filled with treasonous traitors.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 15 July 2023
• That entire building is filled with treasonous traitors.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2023
• The idea that the op-ed might be treasonous is, as Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains, nonsensical.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
• The first one read, in Chinese: To have Ho Wei teaching in our institute is truly treasonous.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Richard Painter has spent much of the past 13 months calling Donald Trump a treasonous, racist pervert on cable news and Twitter.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Mar. 2018
• But a curious thing happened decades after the defeat of their treasonous side by U.S. forces.
  — Doug Hurley, National Geographic, 3 Aug. 2020
• Since church and state were synonymous at the time, this was potentially treasonous.
  — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 12 Dec. 2019
• The move might have been treasonous by North Florida norms and economic hardships.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Davis had only fleeting connections to New Orleans — and his death here clearly has no bearing on the facts of his treasonous and racist life.
  — Clancy Dubos, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• No surprises there, since azadi is Urdu for freedom, which gave it a treasonous ring.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 19 Dec. 2019
• Some daring was required in the decision, which at the time was regarded as almost treasonous.
  — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Heck, the Mario characters can't even jump without help from an ally, which is practically treasonous in a Mario game.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2017
• Sadly, the political left has the use of the media megaphone to advance its treasonous agenda while the truth remains suppressed.
  — Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
• Arya sees only Sansa’s supposed ambition to unseat Jon and makes a subtle threat to tell the Northern lords about Sansa’s treasonous message.
  — Danielle Ohl, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Even hinting at the overthrow of our government is treasonous, prosecutable under the law.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 8 June 2021
• When a prison is a country, the smallest children can be unwitting informers and the most prosaic acts can be treasonous.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
• People who believe that the treasonous men who declared war on their own country should be celebrated with flags and statues are dotards.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
• While Muigai had previously warned such a declaration would be treasonous, the state has yet to charge Odinga with any offense.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The thought of funding and dispersing vaccines to poorer nations halfway across the globe with so many Americans in need would come across to many as either inept or even treasonous.
  — CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• Not only should general Flynn’s charges be dropped immediately but the treasonous actors who set him up should be in jail!!!
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2020
• Those memories included her saying things on the radio that were treasonous and discouraging to the Allied cause.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
• Even casting the monarch’s horoscope was treasonous, and treason’s death sentence was hideous: women were burned alive, men were hanged, drawn, and quartered — hanged until almost dead, eviscerated while still alive, then chopped into pieces.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024