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sedition

noun as in rebellion

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In the House, they voted for leaders who participated in sedition.

Other commentators have dubbed it a coup, or appended the legal label of sedition.

From Quartz

Ye, accused of sedition, is sent to work for an obscure government agency called the Red Coast Base and discovers a new method for transmitting interstellar messages.

From Fortune

While the local sedition law passed in 1918, San Diego didn’t warm to all wartime restrictions that year.

Somebody called the cops, and the 24-year-old was arrested on charges of sedition and thrown in jail.

So does his comment about treason, which plugs into the mentality of those accusing the President of sedition and disloyalty.

I refer to the Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.

Nor do members of Congress with close NRA ties who scare the populace and encourage sedition face any consequences.

Kamhawi is facing sedition charges from the nervous regime for, as he puts it, “saying what I am saying to you.”

Waited to hear what she would make, even at this early hearing, of the charge he faced: sedition.

There was little reason to hope that this, the third city in India, should not yield readily to sedition-mongers.

John Smith was later charged with sedition, acquitted, and finally restored to his rightful council position.

No one knows better than I that it is, at the present moment, honeycombed with sedition and anarchical impulses.

He ascribed the measures taken to repress sedition and defeat the French propaganda as attempts at tyranny.

The sedition cases were mostly heard before the lord-justice clerk Braxfield, who behaved with scandalous harshness and severity.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sedition, such as: insubordination, insurrection, mutiny, treason, agitation, and defiance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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