traitorously

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Zendaya plays the leader, Meechee, who is also, traitorously, the Stonekeeper’s daughter; she sings a song about the glories of an examined life.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

His own brother, Tostig, traitorously serving as the main architect of the king's ruin, persuaded King Harald Hardraada of Norway into mounting a sea assault against England's north.

From Time Magazine Archive

It alleged the publication and delivery by Ralegh to Cobham of a book traitorously devised against the King's title to the crown.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

Then one behind me, who was doubtless a Zuricher, cried out: 'Read the thing through, that we may hear how traitorously they would have dealt with us.'

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

“If you really go to-morrow,” she said, as she put one into the lock, “I hope—” her lips trembled traitorously and she could not go on.

From A Woman's Will by Caliga, I. H. (Isaac Henry)