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US
/sɪˈdɪʃəs/
]
[ UK /sɛdˈɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /sɛdˈɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- arousing to action or rebellion
- in opposition to a civil authority or government
How To Use seditious In A Sentence
- At one extreme governments brought in new laws to curb what they saw as seditious journalism.
- He played the song incessantly, ignoring my pleas for mercy and grannyish objections to its author's seditious intent.
- He fell under suspicion for distributing seditious pamphlets.
- This poor fellow occasionally let slipinconsiderate remarks, which the law then stigmatized as seditious speeches.
- He described Thomas Paine as a traitor to his country, a wicked, malicious, seditious and ill-disposed individual, who had actively supported both the American and the French Revolutions.
- Printers had to settle for prosecutions if they printed seditious libel, so they either played it safe or adopted pseudonyms and fake addresses.
- Any of your seditious complainings, and we were ready with the military on the shortest notice. Miscellaneous Papers
- He said the so-called seditious materials allegedly obtained from some of the detainees, were not illegal, and were merely ANC Daily News Briefing
- European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets
- The laws of libel needed no reinforcement and proceedings for seditious or criminal libel should be used sparingly.