seditious

From Middle French séditieux, from Latin seditiosus.

• IPA^(key): /səˈdɪʃəs/

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seditious (comparative more seditious, superlative most seditious)

1. 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.

• “seditious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.