treason
Example Sentences
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Raleigh may be displaying intensity, but the idea that a gentle fist bump of a current MLB teammate is treason is a special brand of absurd.
Never convicted of treason, Pound would spend nearly 13 years in a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., before returning to Italy, where he died in 1972.
A wounded John Brown was captured, tried, and hanged for treason.
From Literature
The last was Charles I, who was arrested in 1646 and executed three years later for treason.
From Salon
"I need to know that you are willing to take part in an act of treason that will decide this war for Germany," he asks.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
