Treacherous \Treach"er*ous\, a. [See Treacher.]
Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or
faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign;
perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
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Loyal father of a treacherous son. --Shak.
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The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate.
--Cowper.
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Syn: Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious;
plotting.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
treacherous
adj 1: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding
roads"; "an unreliable trestle" [syn: unreliable]
2: tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character
as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic
faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most
treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues" [syn: punic,
perfidious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "treacherous":
Machiavellian, Punic, ambidextrous, artful, calculating, chancy,
chiseling, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning,
dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, desultory, dishonest, disloyal,
double, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced,
double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, dubious,
duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted,
finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hairy, hazardous,
indirect, infirm, insecure, insidious, insubstantial, jeopardous,
misleading, perfidious, perilous, precarious, precariousness,
provisional, recreant, risky, rocky, scheming, shaky, sharp,
shifting, shifty, slippery, sneaky, surreptitious, temporary,
tentative, ticklish, tottery, traitorous, trickish, tricky,
two-faced, uncertain, undependable, underhand, underhanded,
unfaithful, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unloyal, unpredictable,
unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast,
unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrue, untrustworthy, wicked,
wily
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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