Treachery
['tretʃ(ə)rɪ] or ['trɛtʃəri]
Definition
(n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Perfidiousness, perfidy, disloyalty, TREASON, breach of faith, Punic faith.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Insidiousness, faithlessness, perjury, betrayal, fractiousness, treason
ANT:Openness, fidelity, honor, chivalry, generosity, Treason,[See TRAITOROUS]
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Definition
n. faithlessness.—ns. Treach′er Treach′etour Treach′our (obs.) a traitor.—adj. Treach′erous full of treachery: faithless.—adv. Treach′erously.—n. Treach′erousness.
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Examples
- What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,espionage, and treachery? Jane Austen. Emma.
- But if she does, I am quite sure you will find her sons able to defend their island, even against enmity and treachery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was his hidden treachery to which I referred. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Now, at least, it will be open war, and not hidden treachery, Maurice! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Don't you think they will suspect treachery, Maurice? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The inhumanity--the treachery--I will not touch you--stand away from me--and confess every word! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And why, now, was he so tame under the violence or treachery done him? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And yet that would involve treachery towards the mistress to whom this woman seems devoted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A chill of fear passed over Miss Bart: a sense of remembered treachery that was like the gleam of a knife in the dusk. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Muck the whole treachery-ridden country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That he had, from his birth, displayed no better qualities than treachery, ingratitude, and malice. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- His treachery we call policy: His cruelty is an evil inseparable from war. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I'll soon frighten him back, sir, said Dick, who hated Caliphronas for his treachery on the night of the wreck; will I fire? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is a dark and intricate story of treacheries, cruelties, and hate, in which the death of the wily Histi?us shines almost cheerfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The woman was brought to Alexander, who listened to her treacheries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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