Modifying Another Word

• even: Six months ago this would have been considered outrageously partisan, even seditious; today, it accurately reflects the public mood.

Modifies a noun

• libel: The following year his attacks on the governor of New York led to him being arrested for seditious libel.

• conspiracy: After the demonstration at Clontarf in 1843 O'Connell was arrested and early in 1844 was convicted of seditious conspiracy.

• speech: He was sentenced to two years in prison for making what was termed a seditious speech which he agreed was accurately reported.

• writing: In June 1792, the British government issued a trial summons against him for seditious writings.

• material: But the city is in uproar, for someone is once again printing seditious material and no one is quite what they seem.

• thought: But MK was already harboring seditious thoughts about the decadent rulers of the Ottoman Empire.

Used with adjective complement

• deem: Some of his colleagues are serving sentences for possessing reading material deemed seditious.