Definitions

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  • In a treasonable manner.

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  • adverb In a treasonable manner.

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  • adverb in a disloyal and faithless manner

Etymologies

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From treasonable +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • So the AP tells readers that Palestinian informants, individuals who tell the authorities about the activities and locations of terrorists planning to murder civilians, are acting "treasonably"; whereas Vanunu, an individual convicted of treason and espionage for revealing sensitive state secrets and distributing photographs of an Israeli military installation, in violation of a country's laws and an official contract he signed as condition of employement, is deemed by the AP to be a virtuous "One who reveals wrongdoing."

    CAMERA Snapshots 2009

  • So the AP tells readers that Palestinian informants, individuals who tell the authorities about the activities and locations of terrorists planning to murder civilians, are acting "treasonably"; whereas Vanunu, an individual convicted of treason and espionage for revealing sensitive state secrets and distributing photographs of an Israeli military installation, in violation of a country's laws and an official contract he signed as condition of employement, is deemed by the AP to be a virtuous "One who reveals wrongdoing."

    CAMERA Snapshots 2009

  • If the Tories vote for this, then that will expose not only the treasonably corrupt fact that eighty per cent of their MPs are paid by Conservative Friends of Israel (or, to use its shorter name, Mossad), but also their fraudulent receipt of public money in order to provide an Opposition, as well as their slavering hunger for the trappings of office rather than for the rule of law.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • “If the Tories vote for this, then that will expose not only the treasonably corrupt fact that eighty per cent of their MPs are paid by Conservative Friends of Israel (or, to use its shorter name, Mossad) ...”

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • David Lindsay said: "If the Tories vote for this, then that will expose not only the treasonably corrupt fact that eighty per cent of their MPs are paid by Conservative Friends of Israel (or, to use its shorter name, Mossad)".

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Their longstanding Health Spokesman could do with a higher profile, having voted against the Iraq War and almost certainly being one of only two Shadow Cabinet members who are not among the eighty per cent of sitting Tory MPs, and as good as one hundred per cent of those about to get in, who are treasonably on the Mossad payroll.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • If the Tories vote for this, then that will expose not only the treasonably corrupt fact that eighty per cent of their MPs are paid by Conservative Friends of Israel (or, to use its shorter name, Mossad), but also their fraudulent receipt of public money in order to provide an Opposition, as well as their slavering hunger for the trappings of office rather than for the rule of law.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • To deny the existence of this authority in God, or to refuse to submit to it, means to act, not as a free man, but as one who treasonably abuses his liberty; and in such a disposition of mind the chief and deadly vice of liberalism essentially consists.

    Libertas Praestantissimum 2008

  • Some think that he went to get proofs against the Parliamentary leaders in England of their having treasonably invited the Scottish people to come and help them.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • When we were all out in the raw air and were steadily moving towards our business, I treasonably whispered to Joe,

    Great Expectations 2007

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