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Example sentences for "seditious"

Lexicographically close words:
sediments; sedis; sedit; sedition; seditions; seditiously; seduce; seduced; seducer; seducers
  1. Even rebellion and treason seem not to be punishable offences, for, as I shall have to narrate further on, the Albanian League hold seditious meetings under the very nose of the pashas.

  2. It will readily be confessed that those among the luxurious citizens of Syracuse and Alexandria, who were delighted with the poems of Theocritus, were less cold, cruel, and sensual than the remnant of their tribe.

  3. Now the seditious at first gave orders that the dead should be buried out of the public treasury, as not enduring the stench of their dead bodies.

  4. Upon this the seditious came in presently, and smelling the horrid scent of this food, they threatened her, that they would cut her throat immediately if she did not show them what food she had gotten ready.

  5. Come on; be thou my food, and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets and a byword to the world, which is all that is now wanting to complete the calamities of us Jews.

  6. Now every one of these died with their eyes fixed upon the temple, and left the seditious alive behind them.

  7. This famine also will destroy us, even before that slavery comes upon us;--yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both the other.

  8. In Ireland, soon after the collapse of the Clontarf meeting, O'Connell and some of his associates were indicted for seditious conspiracy, and convicted.

  9. Footnote 8: He had been indicted with Charles Gavan Duffy and others for seditious conspiracy.

  10. The state of the internal affairs of his kingdom probably inspired John with caution, for his treacherous cousin of Navarre had resumed his seditious courses.

  11. Pretending even to the crown, he had all the seditious arts and fiery recklessness of the demagogue; and he stooped to ally himself with any malcontent class, or to work with any dirty tool.

  12. This naturally gives us an uneasiness, in considering such seditious and disloyal actions, and makes us attach to them the idea of vice and moral deformity.

  13. When a man of merit, of a beneficent disposition, restores a great fortune to a miser, or a seditious bigot, he has acted justly and laudably, but the public is a real sufferer.

  14. When the meeting was publicly announced, there was a proclamation from the Orange Society, calling upon the brethren to put down the "Seditious gathering.

  15. When Mr. Parnell stood up to speak he stepped upon a chair, that he might be the better seen, and said "I am going to make a seditious speech.

  16. Amongst diuerse of the which (the same night by what excitation, my said lord the chancellor wist not) seditious and heauie language was vsed, and in especiall against the person of my lord the chancellor.

  17. This sudden change amongst the nobilitie caused alterations, and seditious attempts in the commonaltie, and in especiall within London: whereof this was one.

  18. Upon this the seditious came in presently, and smelling the horrid scent of this food, they threatened her that they would cut her throat immediately if she did not show them what food she had gotten ready.

  19. Now every one of these died with their eyes fixed upon the Temple, and left the seditious alive behind them.

  20. Now the warlike men that were in the city, and the multitude of the seditious that were with Simon, were ten thousand, besides the Idumeans.

  21. And now the seditious rushed into the royal palace, into which many had put their effects, because it was so strong, and drove the Romans away from it.

  22. Yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both the other.

  23. He was glad in any and every way to browbeat and thwart the men whose seditious clamor had forced him in the morning to act against his will.

  24. If the seditious Jews only knew their business!

  25. Finally it came, only he was invited to die at the head of an army which Nero had projected against seditious Jews.

  26. He was described as a "seditious Person, and a frequent Printer and Publisher of false News and seditious Libels.

  27. His fears were increased by the insidious attacks of the Spanish ambassador, Gondomar, who informed the King that "a seditious Company was but the seminary to a seditious Parliament.

  28. It is a relic still remaining of the venom of popish ambition, lurking in that seditious distinction and division between the power spiritual and civil.

  29. Footnote 28: A seditious Catholic publication, dedicated to Essex, to ruin him.

  30. The populace was still agitated and full of seditious plans.

  31. It is an encouragement to seditious speeches and purposes.

  32. It does not protect a man in making seditious speeches in the slave States.

  33. I am not in favor of an amendment which encourages mobs and riots at the North, and I will not consent to one which, like this, encourages seditious speeches at the South.

  34. Numbers of citizens have begun to confound seditious insurrections with the great insurrection of liberty; to look on the excitement of robbers as the outburst of energetic minds, and robbery itself as a measure of general security.

  35. But for the insensible progress of reason, states would now be filled with a tumultuous crowd of devotees, ready to revolt at the signal of an unquiet priest or a seditious monk.

  36. It was on this occasion that De Foe's genius dictated a Remonstrance, which was signed Legion, and which has been recorded in history for its bold truths and seditious petulance.

  37. I counsel that we seek and find firm ground Of mortal accusation, before those Who rule us, against these audacious men, As teachers of seditious doctrine meant To undermine allegiance, and at length Prompt insurrection and a state of war.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seditious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    breakaway; contumacious; extreme; factious; inflammatory; insubordinate; insurgent; insurrectionary; malcontent; mutinous; rebel; rebellious; revolutionary; riotous; seditious; subversive; traitorous; treasonable; turbulent