seditious
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Etymology edit
From Middle French séditieux, from Latin seditiosus.
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seditious (comparative more seditious, superlative most seditious)
- Of, related to, or being involved in sedition.
- Synonyms: treasonous, subversive, insubordinate, rebellious
- 2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 112:
- There may not be anything seditious about his music, but plundering and ravaging the tracks needed to create it requires a spirit of rebellion at odds with corporate organization. Enterprise mashup may be an oxymoron.
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- “seditious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.