traitorsome
traitorsome adjective: characteristic of a traitor; traitorous.
Adjective
traitorsome (comparative more traitorsome, superlative most traitorsome)
- Characteristic of a traitor; traitorous
- And now, Miss Moggy you must take a solemn oaph on de Bible.' “'Oh, never mind, Ann, I'm not going to betray your confidence.” “'Git de Bible, else I won't tell you what passed sence, betwixt Miss Guttrude and dat traitorsome colonel.”1856, The Night Watch: Or, Social Life in the South, page 81
- Winston Churchill, for example, had written a book only two years earlier in which he painted a fairly scathing picture of the settler community in Nairobi, a city he characterized as thoroughly “South African” as a way of not-so-subtly implying the settlers to be a traitorsome bunch of Boers who...2010, zunguzungu, “Minor descriptive touches derive from the author’s own native background in Kenya”
- Synonyms:
- Judaslike, recreant, traitorly, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced
Synonyms of traitorsome
- Judaslike
- recreant
- traitorly
- booky
- dastardly
- disloyal
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- doublehearted
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- perfidious
- Punic
- ratlike
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treachersome
- unfaithful
- unleal
- unloyal
- unsteadfast
- untrue
- viperish
- viperous
- disleal
- falseheart
- guiled
- illoyal
Forms of traitorsome
| comparative | more traitorsome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most traitorsome |
Origin of traitorsome
From traitor + -some.
Questions about traitorsome
- What does traitorsome mean?
- Traitorsome means characteristic of a traitor; traitorous.
- What part of speech is traitorsome?
- Traitorsome is an adjective.
Words near traitorsome in the dictionary
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