"traitorsome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more traitorsome [comparative], most traitorsome [superlative]
Etymology: From traitor + -some. Etymology templates: {{af|en|traitor|-some}} traitor + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} traitorsome (comparative more traitorsome, superlative most traitorsome)
  1. Characteristic of a traitor; traitorous
    Sense id: en-traitorsome-en-adj-h5QAO2iu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "ref": "1856, The Night Watch: Or, Social Life in the South, page 81",
          "text": "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.”",
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          "ref": "2010, zunguzungu, “Minor descriptive touches derive from the author’s own native background in Kenya”",
          "text": "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 were likely to revolt against the good English rule of law.",
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          "ref": "2015, Stefano Dall'Aglio, The Duke's Assassin",
          "text": "Instead, these were performed by Frenchmen and exiles, as Pandolfini promptly reported: “Immediately after the affair of Lorenzo the traitorsome Frenchmen in company with members of the Strozzi household went to the Volterrans' lodgings and took all the letters and writings they found there, nor could I discover what the letters were.”",
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