traitorously

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Zendaya plays the leader, Meechee, who is also, traitorously, the Stonekeeper’s daughter; she sings a song about the glories of an examined life.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

His own brother, Tostig, traitorously serving as the main architect of the king's ruin, persuaded King Harald Hardraada of Norway into mounting a sea assault against England's north.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly Culpeper incited the Queen, and they had retained Lady Rochford as their go-between, she having traitorously aided and abetted them.”

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp

“If you really go to-morrow,” she said, as she put one into the lock, “I hope—” her lips trembled traitorously and she could not go on.

From A Woman's Will by Caliga, I. H. (Isaac Henry)

There were moments when he traitorously wondered if it might not be better for him to lack a friend with ideals so rigid.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon