from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Of, relating to, or having the nature of sedition.
adjective Given to, engaging in, or promoting sedition. synonym: insubordinate.
from The Century Dictionary.
Partaking of the nature of sedition; tending to the promotion of sedition: as, seditious strife; seditious speech; a seditious harangue.
Engaged in sedition; guilty of sedition; exciting or promoting sedition: as, seditious persons.
Synonyms Incendiary. See insurrection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition.
adjective Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Of, related to, or being involved in sedition; treasonous or subversive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective arousing to action or rebellion
adjective in opposition to a civil authority or government
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The Interior Ministry blamed what it described as "seditious" residents, saying they attacked security forces with guns and firebombs and had the backing of a foreign enemy - an apparent reference to rival power Iran.
The Interior Ministry previously blamed what it described as "seditious" residents, saying they attacked security forces with guns and firebombs with the backing of a foreign enemy - an apparent reference to Shiite power Iran.
Thailand is ramping up its reliance on a recently introduced Computer Crimes Act to restrict criticism of its royal family and limit the spread of what the government calls seditious material.
The left is an -- the left is an idea-generating organism, but they are very peculiar ideas, very seditious, which is obviously what the left always wants, but half the time not quite comprehensible.
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