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Betray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
  • (v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
  • (v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
  • (v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
  • (v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
  • (v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
  • (v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
  • (2) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
  • (5) It is a betrayal that will see thousands of young people decide that they cannot risk the debt that going to university would load them with.
  • (6) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
  • (7) Tories, for their part, claim that Lib Dems are betraying a promise to vote for the boundary review in return for being able to hold a national referendum on introducing a new alternative vote system last year.
  • (8) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
  • (9) You’re betraying the working class of Britain they tell me.
  • (10) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
  • (11) This is a man who has betrayed his country,” Kerry told CBS News .
  • (12) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
  • (13) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
  • (14) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
  • (15) So maybe tiki-taka hasn't died, but Spain betrayed it by trying to play with a recognized striker, and then with whatever the hell Fernando Torres is."
  • (16) By the most generous standards it is a serious lapse if not a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations.
  • (17) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
  • (18) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
  • (19) But she raised concerns that parents' fears over costs betray a lack of understanding of grants and loans available to students from less affluent homes, suggesting more should be done to explain all the options.
  • (20) For all the bad blood of the past year, for all the talk of betrayal, there remains the kernel of a progressive consensus.

Wray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reveal; to disclose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
  • (2) There are all sorts of permutations here, not least that founders Ed Wray and Andrew "Bert" Black – who still own 19% of the company – could retain their shares in a company CVC takes private.
  • (3) The youngest challenger, 42-year-old Norman Wray , represents the Ruptura de los 25 movement, which also encompasses many former government supporters who are now unhappy with the president.
  • (4) Professor Geoffrey Wood, University of Sheffield Beverley Woodburn, Ruskin College, Oxford David Wray, University of Northumbria Caroline Wright, University of Bristol Tessa Wright, London Metropolitan University Aylwin Yafele, Bournemouth University Olly Zanetti, Open University
  • (5) The WRAY live-vaccine strain gave no aro+ recombinants in crosses with aroA point mutations to one side of the insertion, indicating a deletion from Tn10 through the sites of these point mutations.
  • (6) A review of the historical development of oral contraceptives saw Pincus in the 50's revolutionizing steroid chemistry by using his weapons, eloquence and persuasion, to persuade the Searle Company; Syntex; John rock;, and Edris Rice-Wray to carry out research and clinical studies in the field of contraceptives.
  • (7) 55, 357 (1983)] and later expanded upon by Tofts and Wray.
  • (8) Wray’s choice to leave public service for a much more lucrative job as a criminal defense attorney will probably be viewed as a typical decision for many federal prosecutors, the former FBI agent who served in Philadelphia said.
  • (9) Wray worked as an assistant US attorney in Georgia and spent two years as the assistant attorney general in charge of the justice department’s criminal division, before returning to private practice.
  • (10) Wray was raised in New York and attended Phillips Academy, the same posh New England boarding school as the former presidents George Bush and George W Bush.
  • (11) As the search for Comey’s replacement kicked off, one former FBI official, Ron Hosko, said: “What some reasonable people might fear is that this might become a game of FBI Apprentice.” In a statement on Wednesday, Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, said America was “fortunate” that Wray had decided “he is willing to make this personal commitment to serve”.
  • (12) We previously hypothesized (L. V. Wray, M. M. Witte, R. C. Dickson, and M. I. Riley, Mol.
  • (13) comey cover up Further questions about Wray’s suitability for the FBI job may arise because a partner at the law firm he is poised to depart, King & Spalding, currently serves as an ethics counsel to the trust that holds Trump’s business assets.
  • (14) Jake Poinier, Wray’s high school friend, college roommate and best man, said Wray was a serious-minded student who was conservative but not politically active.
  • (15) In a statement Wednesday morning, Thomas O’Connor, the association’s president, did not endorse or oppose Wray’s nomination, but said the group “looks forward to meeting with Mr Wray” and that it was “critically important that the FBIAA understands his views on the FBI, special agents, and the criminal and national security threats that agents combat daily”.
  • (16) An infant girl with chronic eczema, recurrent infections, elevated IgE and impaired neutrophil chemotaxis appeared to belong to the group of patients described by Buckley, Wray & Belmaker (1972).
  • (17) But former FBI agents played down the significance of Wray’s link to a Trump associate.
  • (18) White called Wray “smart, independent” and “widely regarded as a strong leader”.
  • (19) Who is Christopher Wray, Trump's pick to replace Comey as FBI director?
  • (20) We have less freedom," says protester Carlotta Wray.

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