treacherous
IPA: trˈɛtʃɝʌs
adjective
- Exhibiting treachery.
- Deceitful; inclined to betray.
- Unreliable; dangerous.
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Examples of "treacherous" in Sentences
- The traitors are treacherous and untrustworthy.
- The boulevard is winding and treacherous in some areas.
- I will divide the humble from the haughty and treacherous.
- He, as the villain, is deceitful, treacherous and scheming.
- Come into the open, you mischievous and treacherous rabble.
- The city's seacoast consists mostly of treacherous mudflats.
- A squall blew up and the yachts ran aground on the treacherous quicksands.
- At the last moment Dingane shouted the treacherous order of their execution
- Much of the gorge are heavily forested, the remainder are treacherous cliffs.
- He located the crippled aircraft and landed in the treacherous desert terrain.
- Calling the open-sourcing of software treacherous is a little wildly off base, where is the treachery?
- The low-flying cargo planes often had to weave through mountaintops in treacherous weather conditions.
- Unless the guides were treacherous, he must sight the minarets of El Obeid soon _Unless the guides were treacherous_!
- Equally treacherous is the view that the young have always been inscrutable to adults and have always complained about being misunderstood.
- Our noble captain did not get rid of his angry looks for some days, and actually wept at what he termed the treacherous conduct of the Admiralty.
- The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his DOG.
- Infuriated by what he calls a treacherous and unacceptable provocation from the diplomatic mission, Cuban communist leader, Fidel Castro began building his response a few days later.
- The multiple truths of those memories are sometimes difficult, their terrain treacherous, and the stories I heard were not always as simple as heroic master narratives had wanted them to be.
- Left-wing Philippine groups are planning to hold protests outside the U.S. embassy in Manila on Saturday to denounce what they describe as the "treacherous" negotiations with the United States.
- Their meeting was not cordial, nor such as men, who meet in a desert, should give each other; but I thought they would have parted in peace, until I saw one put his rifle to the other's back, and do what I call a treacherous and sinful murder.