betrayed
Sold someone out
Betrayed is the past tense of betray, meaning to be disloyal to someone who trusted you.
A betrayed spouse has been cheated on.
A betrayed secret has been revealed.
Someone who feels betrayed has had their trust violated: She felt betrayed when her best friend spread the rumor.
Betrayed can also mean inadvertently revealed: His accent betrayed his origins.
One who betrays allegiance
- turncoatOne who betrays allegiance
- backstabBetray someone's trust
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
- double-dealerOne feigning loyalty falsely
two-faced · faithless · unfaithful · perfidious · disloyal · false · untrustworthy · fickle
Deceptive rule-breaking
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
- unfaithfulBetraying a partner's trust
- two-timingBeing unfaithful romantically
cuckold · heartbreak · mistress · paramour · lover · tryst · fling · divorce
Treacherous deception of partner
- deceiveCause false belief
- dupeDeceive or victim
- hoodwinkTrick into false belief
- misleadCause false belief
bamboozle · trick · con · fool · manipulate · swindle · defraud · beguile
Cause or feel pain
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- crushedCompressed into fragments
- devastatedOverwhelmed by grief
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
shattered · stung · disillusioned · gutted · violated · wronged · abandoned · forsaken
traitor
One who betrays allegiance
double-dealer · two-faced · faithless · unfaithful · perfidious · disloyal · false · untrustworthy · fickle · inconstant
cheating
Deceptive rule-breaking
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
- unfaithfulBetraying a partner's trust
two-timing · cuckold · heartbreak · mistress · paramour · lover · tryst · fling · divorce · estrangement
double-cross
Treacherous deception of partner
mislead · bamboozle · trick · con · fool · manipulate · swindle · defraud · beguile · delude
hurt
Cause or feel pain
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- crushedCompressed into fragments
- devastatedOverwhelmed by grief
heartbroken · shattered · stung · disillusioned · gutted · violated · wronged · abandoned · forsaken · discarded
treason
Betraying one's nation
- seditionInciting revolt against government
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
subversion · collusion · espionage · mutiny · rebellion · defection · coup · plot · undermine · infiltration
snitch
One who tells authorities
tattletale · whistleblower · mole · spy · leak · expose · denounce · turncoat · narc · grass
- wrongedabused, mistreated, victimized, exploited, oppressed
- dupeddeceived, tricked, fooled, conned, swindled
- unfairnessunfair, unjust, biased, unequal, inequitable
- turn overflip, flipped, rotate, rotated, invert
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- breakupsbreakup, breaking up, dumped, dumping, it's over
betrayedstood by
Supported or awaited
honored · supported · upheld · championed · backed
- betrayal of trustBreaking promised loyalty
- family betrayalDisloyalty among kin
- love and betrayalDevotion paired with its violation
- betrayal traumaDistress when depended-upon harms
- betrayal arcStory of broken loyalty
- betrayal storyStory featuring disloyalty