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
A second prod roused him with a ghastly self-betraying start.
From The Dark House by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
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 Henry Rogers
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
The effort to be still calm and reasonable—to suffer the heart-ache, and not to let the suffering be seen—made cruel demands on the self-betraying nature of a woman possessed by strong emotion.
From The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
