treachery
IPA: trˈɛtʃɝi
noun
- Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
- The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
- Treason.
- (countable) An act or instance of treachery.
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Examples of "treachery" in Sentences
- Exposing your duplicitiousness and treachery is a full-time job.
- Of course, he was in a great rage at what he called the treachery of
- Melanie Phillips makes much of the word treachery in her blog entry.
- Many, I believe, sense a terrible treachery is being perpetuated whilst being to busy to follow its awful details.
- The problem lay not in treachery but in implementation: successful use of the intelligence would tend to give it away.
- In this condition the legions burst in on them, furious at what they called the treachery of the previous day, and merciless in their vengeance.
- Fink grumbled, and Anton could not forget what he called treachery to Bernhard; and so it was, that for some weeks they no longer spent their evenings together.
- This determined man, whose experience in the East Indies was of long date, and who had already served as director-general, came into his new office with an intense prejudice against the English, and with a firm resolve to put an end to what he described as their treachery and intrigues.
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