treason

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Doing so while assuming Americans would pick up the tab for your treason is adding insult to injury ... literally.

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  1. noun Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
  2. noun A betrayal of trust or confidence.

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  • [108] Nothing is recorded officially of any bribe from France, but the fact of "one million of gold" having been promised as the wages of their treason is asserted by historians. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. II by J. Endell Tyler
  • Travelling half way around the world, the word treason has been employed, but in a much different case. —  matthewgood.org
  • This would be flimflam but it wouldn't be treason, which is what your post suggests. —  One Thousand Reasons
  • Doing so while assuming Americans would pick up the tab for your treason is adding insult to injury ... literally. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • LAST i checked bribery is and should be a hanging offense or life in prison of a federal official and might even if your a foreign person be a kind of treason, abolishing these lobbying rules of large corporate entities should be a top priority of any democratic govt but it aint gonna happen when ya get a pittance form taxpayers compared to the scam money they give you —  p2pnet news
 

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treachery ·  perjury ·  robbery ·  conspiracy ·  injustice ·  rebellion ·  ingratitude ·  wickedness ·  disobedience ·  mutiny ·  heresy ·  murder
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Latin trāditiō, trāditiōn-, a handing over; see tradition.

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  1. from Middle English treson, tresun, treisun, traisoun, trayson, from O F. trahison, traisson, traison, French trahison =Provencal traicio, traazo, tracio, trassio =Spanish traicion =Portuguese traição, from Latin tradition (n-), a giving up, surrender, delivery, tradition, from tradere, past participle traditus, give up, deliver over, betray: see tradition, of which treason is a doublet.
 

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