betray
Example Sentences
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“How dare you betray me in this way?”
From Literature
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“I feel betrayed by my country,” he explained in language similar to what he would use on stage a short time later.
From Salon
Believers hissed, certain that the former celebrity medium was being paid to betray the spirits.
From Literature
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I was betraying Gran and spinning her memory away all at once.
From Literature
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Her Alawi identity rendered her especially useful as a revolutionary courier; police never imagined her capable of betraying the regime.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.