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traitorsome

traitorsome adjective: characteristic of a traitor; traitorous.

Adjective

traitorsome (comparative more traitorsome, superlative most traitorsome)

  1. 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 of traitorsome

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Forms of traitorsome

comparativemore traitorsome
superlativemost 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

  1. traitorously
  2. traitorousness
  3. traitors
  4. traitors within the gates
  5. traitorship
  6. traitorsome
  7. traitorwise
  8. traitory
  9. traitour
  10. traitourly
  11. traitourous

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