traitorous

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The “traitorous eight,” as Shockley called them, set out to be hired as a group to study and make semiconductors.

From Washington Post

The defection by the “traitorous eight,” as the group came to be called, planted the seeds for Silicon Valley’s renegade culture, in which engineers who disagreed with their colleagues didn’t hesitate to become competitors.

From Seattle Times

In 1957, Mr. Moore and Mr. Noyce joined a group of defectors who came to be known as “the traitorous eight.”

From New York Times

Eight sketches for his “Brutus,” leading right up to 1789, showed the Roman consul refusing to mourn his traitorous sons as their corpses are hauled away.

From New York Times

All of that is unforgivable, un-American and potentially traitorous.

From Washington Post