seditiously
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9.9
- adverb
- /sɪˈdɪʃəsli/
- Formal
:
de manera sediciosa
- The group of activists planned to speak seditiously during the rally to inspire others to challenge the government.
Examples
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The pamphlet circulated among the students was filled with seditiously themed messages urging resistance to authority.
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Once again he was thinking dangerously, seditiously.
Fiction book (1999) -
Though she did not spell it out, the song she recalled a "tall, large" woman to have sung was a seditiously foolish call to battle: PREFORMATTED TABLE
Academic text (1998) -
There are many patriotic Muslims who are part of both parties, and when radical ideologues like this do a demonstration of "solidarity" in the name of our faith and choose an imam like Siraj Wahhaj, who I saw with my own eyes in 1995 seditiously say it is his duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran, then we need to speak up!
Blog text (13) -
He wrote a seditiously charged article that incited public unrest against the new policies.
Synonyms
1
7.8
To do something secretly to weaken rules or authority
Antonyms
How Seditious
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Etymology
Seditiously comes from the old Latin word seditio, which meant 'going apart' or 'rebellion', and from the small part se- meaning 'apart'. So, to act seditiously is to try to pull people away from the government or to encourage a rebellion.