betrayal 的定义
- the act of exposing or delivering someone to an enemy through treachery or disloyalty:This security leak was an inexcusable betrayal of an ally whose very existence is now threatened.
- the act of disappointing a person’s trust, hopes, or expectations:Imagine what a betrayal it is each time a rape victim finds out that her fellow citizens, and our legal system, are just not there for her.
- the act of revealing information in violation of confidence:The library, which carried books criticizing the regime, was kept in private homes and frequently had to be moved to avoid betrayal of its secret to the local authorities.
- failure to keep or honor a promise, principle, cherished memory, etc.:Many of his constituents are unhappy with his promotion of new mining and logging initiatives, seeing it as a betrayal of his green ideals.
- an act or instance of unconsciously revealing or displaying some quality or characteristic, typically one preferably concealed:A slight tremor in her hand was the only betrayal of her fear.
betrayal 近义词
exhibition of disloyalty
divulgence of information
betrayal 的近义词 8 个
betrayal 的反义词 6 个
更多betrayal例句
- Though the episode ends on a close-up of her husband’s eyes, Kidman’s remain our window into Grace’s shock, her betrayal — her, well, undoing.
- It’s also designed to examine less playful, more destructive betrayals of trust.
- As I can testify firsthand, napping while working from home can feel like a betrayal of trust, a breach of the social contract that assumes that you’re still hammering away even when your manager can’t see you.
- The moment early on in the film when someone she loves betrays her by slicing off her wings — ostensibly in order to “save” her — comes off like an excruciating form of conversion therapy.
- Equating antifa with QAnon betrays how Facebook fundamentally doesn’t grasp the issue.
- Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.
- And their suspicions make them see betrayal at every turn, even when incompetence may be the cause of a particular problem.
- We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map.
- To a certain degree, there is an irrational sense of betrayal.
- The worldwide panic over her new look is rooted in a sense of betrayal to the "be yourself" values that Bridget Jones embodied.
- Such a betrayal led him upon the following day to send a note to Mrs. Chepstow, asking for an appointment.
- And the surgeon looked at him; but there rose up in his remembrance how he had been avoiding betrayal for years.
- Then, regretting the betrayal of his feelings, the young man relapsed into gloomy silence.
- These people received Mosby's men into their houses as their guests, and neither danger nor want could tempt their betrayal.
- He was much rather inclined to think with Lucien Bruslart that Latour had had a part in her betrayal.