betray
verb (used with object)
to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty.
self-betraying
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a word derived from
betray.
Example Sentences
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“It’s going to be all right,” grown-ups keep telling Christopher in bruised, self-betraying voices.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2014
Should we not expect, at the very least, the hesitating, suspicious, self-betraying tone usual in all such cases?
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry
She sat silent while, with enormous and self-betraying pains to avoid detection, he studied her firm thin brilliantly red lips.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair
A second prod roused him with a ghastly self-betraying start.
From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step.
From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
