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Meaning of betray with a kiss | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

Of Judas, to kiss Jesus so as to discreetly signal to Roman soldiers that Jesus was the Christ, and as such was the one to be arrested.
To betray someone in a seemingly inconspicuous or innocuous manner.
idiomatic

Examples

“One man caught on a barbed-wire fence; one man, he resist[s]. One man washed on an empty beach; one man betrayed with a kiss.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

betray'd betrayed betrayedst betrayest betrayeth betraying