All 4 Uses of
sedition
in
Main Street
- Some of the people who had been at the station declared that Miles made some dreadful seditious retort: something about loving German workmen more than American bankers; but others asserted that he couldn't find one word with which to answer the veteran; that he merely sneaked up on the platform of the train.†
Chpt 27
- "All these organizers, yes, and a whole lot of the German and Squarehead farmers themselves, they're seditious as the devil—disloyal, non-patriotic, pro-German pacifists, that's what they are!"†
Chpt 36
- You don't oppose this organizer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive you townsmen of the money you make out of mortgages and wheat and shops.†
Chpt 36
- But one thing I'm not going to stand: I'm not going to stand my own wife being seditious.†
Chpt 36 *
Definition:
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(sedition) illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority -- especially overthrow of the government