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
No. 203: "As she looked at you, filled with the might of her self-betraying love, so she then, in order to conceal it, looked also at the other persons."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
A second prod roused him with a ghastly self-betraying start.
From The Dark House by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
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 Sinclair Lewis
No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
