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Zendaya plays the leader, Meechee, who is also, traitorously, the Stonekeeper’s daughter; she sings a song about the glories of an examined life.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

His own brother, Tostig, traitorously serving as the main architect of the king's ruin, persuaded King Harald Hardraada of Norway into mounting a sea assault against England's north.

From Time Magazine Archive

This conception they transferred to the faithful of their own time; and against them was Antichrist, in the Roman church, to which the English prelates seemed traitorously to incline.

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring

He is not here to salute himself, as he is tending his brother who was traitorously wounded in the battle yesterday.”

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

Her lips quivered traitorously as she saw Steve's eyes on it.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker