Example Sentences

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“Read Irby because she understands the mutinies of the body. She understands suffering and uncertainty, and is wildly, seditiously funny on both,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020

She understands suffering and uncertainty, and is wildly, seditiously funny on both.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020

The House uses an updated, annotated version of that manual, and it includes this rule that Jefferson took from English parliamentary rules: “In Parliament, to speak irreverently or seditiously against the King is against order.”

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2019

He plots to overthrow Herod, and then, himself deposed and displaced from power, meets his long-lost younger brother, whom he goads into raving on seditiously about the kingdom of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sixth count contained the fourth charge set forth in the first count, omitting the words "unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously," and the overt acts.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various