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单词 seditious
释义
seditious
adjective
uk
/sɪˈdɪʃ.əs/us
/səˈdɪʃ.əs/
intendingtopersuadeotherpeopletoopposetheirgovernment:
煽动对抗（政府）的
She wasarrestedafter making aspeechthat thegovernmentconsideredto be seditious.她在发表了被政府认为是煽动性的演讲后被捕。
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  • He and threeotherswerechargedwith seditiousconspiracyforoppositionto thedraft.
  • Thisoperaisbasedon aplaythat wasconsideredseditious on theeveof theFrenchRevolution.
  • abroadmonitoringoperationby the F.B.I. againstgroupsandindividualsitdeemedseditious
  • He wasarrestedin London in 1723 for seditiouslibel.
  • Thesepainterswere seditious,shocking,recklesslyexperimental.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Opposing & against
  • ad hominem
  • alienate
  • alienated
  • alienation
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • anti-boycott
  • antithetical
  • nimby
  • nimbyism
  • non-confidence
  • object
  • oppositional
  • outcry
  • protest
  • raise
  • resistant
  • sail against the windidiom
  • versus
  • virulent
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Activism & pressure groups
(Definition ofseditiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofseditious

seditious
The author in fact staked out a position that was not merely offensive, but quite blatantlyseditious.
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He led the resurgent postwar opposition and was twice prosecuted forseditiouslibel.
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He had 'prepared instruments of war for the purpose of punishing and expelling thisseditioustribe'.
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The major weight of enforcement, of finding and destroying illegal presses, of reportingseditiousliterature, and of detecting under-the-table sales, fell on the stationers themselves.
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This was not an anarchistic orseditiouscreed.
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Seditiouswords cases cannot all be regarded as drunken indiscretions or developments of private feuds, with witnesses exaggerating or fabricating evidence.
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The deposit would be forfeited if any newspaper were found to have published anythingseditious.
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Most of these prosecutions were aimed at a handful of publications, so at any given time a great deal of arguablyseditiousmaterial circulated freely.
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At the same time, the courts were having to deal withseditiousthreats which challenged previously sacred political taboos.
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Commentators have focused on this "expression" provision, neglecting the companion aliens and naturalization legislation as much as the continued existence of the common law offense ofseditiouslibel.
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I think that the reason why they acquitted him was partly because this law ofseditiouslibel has an ancient history.
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She was suspected of having in her possession documents of aseditiouscharacter.
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The other main feature of civil disobedience activity has been the distribution ofseditiouspamphlets.
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They had been used as a centre for the distribution ofseditiousliterature unconnected with electioneering purposes.
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Amongst a quantity ofseditiousliterature seized some were documents which might be deemed to refer to the anticipated election.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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