betrayed
past simple and past participle of
betray
Meaning of betrayed in English
betray verb [T] (NOT LOYAL)
B2
- Vargas plays the part of treacherous aristocrat who betrays his king and country.
- Didn't he feel guilty about betraying his fellow countrymen and women?
- I trusted him and he betrayed me.
- After a bitter ten-year campaign, William Wallace was betrayed and executed in London in 1305.
- At the height of Stalin's rule, children were encouraged to betray their parents.
- adulterous
- backstabber
- betrayal
- betrayer
- break ranks idiom
- deserter
- desertion
- faithless
- faithlessly
- faithlessness
- false
- fifth column
- sellout
- stab someone in the back idiom
- tergiversation
- throw someone to the lions idiom
- throw someone under the bus idiom
- treasonable
- unfaithful
- unfaithfulness
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betray verb [T] (SHOW)
Examples of betrayed
betrayed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Even within the spiritualist community the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice.
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You betrayed the trust we placed in you when you came and built your churches, when you started to convert.
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Colonial efforts to ensure the loyalty of politically powerful askaris betrayed a similar message regarding martial identity.
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No one betrayed the secret, no one turned informant; solidarity triumphed over totalitarian authority.
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They, at best, are being short-changed, at worst betrayed.
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Their writings inevitably betrayed the particular bias of a professional 'middle class'.
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His comments betrayed two common suspicions musicians have about music criticism: that it tends to be (1) self-important and (2) uninformed.
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We know little, for example, about the process by which individual artists are thought to have betrayed their convictions.
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A first step, then, in addressing this dilemma was to recognize that my initial response betrayed unarticulated assumptions that needed further exploration.
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They also feel betrayed by their own leaders and intellectuals.
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I shall discuss some examples of neural models being betrayed by a messier physiological reality.
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Humanistic concepts of a rounded education have been betrayed by marketing managers.
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The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.
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Now this betrayed and illiterate woman wanted revenge.
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They feel betrayed by the lure of organizational opportunities, which seem to have stunted, rather than supported, their objectives.
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