Synonyms for betrays
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1. List of paraphrases for "betrays":

   betrayed, reveals

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1. Theodore Roszak:

   To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

2. C. C. Colton:

   To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

3. Aldous Huxley:

   The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

4. Unknown:

   If someone betrays you once, it's his fault If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

5. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774:

   Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.