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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