treasonable

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That degree of negligence could arguably have been treated as a treasonable offense.

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having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

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adjective

having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

Definitions

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adjective

having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

Example sentences

That degree of negligence could arguably have been treated as a treasonable offense.

I don't think that's the most treasonable conclusion to draw from the evidence. There is a difference between being profitable and having room for growth.

"Actually waging war on the US is treasonable without a Congressional declaration" I'm trying to parse this. Waging war on behalf of the US?

I don't think that's the most treasonable conclusion to draw from the evidence. > GTE was a conglomerate with among other things a large wireless business with a lot of highly valuable radio spectrum Note also that Verizon invested $7 billion in building FiOS in these states.

Whether it was efficiently executed is irrelevant - it was treasonable activity.

No, for assistance to an enemy to be treasonable, war must actually have been declared, and only Congress can declare war. Actually waging war on the US is treasonable without a Congressional declaration, but the definition depends on a state of "open war" in which you're part of a recognized assembled group of people engaged in open armed hostilities.

Where we differ is that you seem to argue what makes sense is to return to status quo ante, and I don't see how that makes any kind of sense when the clusterfuck we're arguing about is a side effect of the order-of-magnitude larger clusterfuck that is the economic effect of the ongoing pandemic, and the US government's ongoing and in my opinion frankly treasonable mishandling of said pandemic. Please excuse my language.