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How to use treachery in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Treachery means deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith. Example: “For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.”

Examples of treachery by meaning

nounDeliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.

  • Suddenly, in the midst of high-camp treachery and sleuthery, each character does a star turn, breaking out in song.2002 January 3, Joan Dupont, “MOVIE GUIDE : 8 Femmes”, in The New York Times

nounAn act or instance of treachery.

  • These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78

More sentences with treachery

  • For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.From the entry saving grace
  • Desert islands cannot harbour treachery, even from the enemy hidden within man himself.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 38. From the entry desert island
  • A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.2023, Stewart Stafford, A Wager After Midnight. From the entry dynasty
  • The Habsburg narrative for the Hungarians has always been about their treachery, mendacity, religious splitism and lack of gratitude.2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 254. From the entry splittism
  • Surely all those abominable rebels must see that their obstinacy and treachery redounds upon their own kith and kin.1916, Baroness Orczy, Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders. From the entry kith and kin
  • At your front—in your face—he may strike you; But he takes not the night for his helmlet, Nor is treachery ever his weapon.2018, Hiram Hoyt Richmond, Montezuma, page 128. From the entry helmlet
  • The sagas have more than their share of axings in the back, killings encompassed by treachery and trickery, narrated without accompanying moralizations.2009, William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking. From the entry axing
  • Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.2008, Sidney Axinn, A Moral Military, page 84. From the entry perfidy
  • When Ma is about to "get it" in the back in White Heat, the dark Sant'Ana wind, rustling leaves ominously, adds heat to the treachery.2005, John Rechy, Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays, page 258. From the entry Santana wind
  • Most of Hi‘iaka’s chants during the homeward journey have a recurrent refrain of sorrow, for by now she had a vision of Pele’s treachery.1989, Rita Knipe, The Water of Life: A Jungian Journey through Hawaiian Myth, University of Hawaii Press, page 146. From the entry Pele
  • This crew faces the Sauronesque embodiment of evil, the Shadow, its minions, the savage Reavers, and treachery in the usurper of Arlen's throne.1984, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 104, numbers 10-14, page 146. From the entry Sauronesque
  • What is to be expected of them is not treachery or physical cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I & II. From the entry ruling class
  • You two sit down, and I'll map it out for you.” For the next fifteen minutes I told them a tale of greed, racism, treachery and murder.1992, Roy Maynard, 38 Caliber: An Emerson Dunn Mystery, page 127. From the entry map out
  • Its tasks is the elimination of all forms of treachery and back-sliding with the various branches of the Soviet Secret Service and Secret Police at home and abroad.1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 21. From the entry backsliding
  • The delegates to a national convention are, as the politicians say, "twenty-minute eggs," and such a convention is the super-market place for political deals and bargains, trades and treachery.1938, Frank Richardson Kent, The great game of politics, page 246. From the entry twenty-minute egg

Meaning of treachery

  1. noun Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
  2. noun The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
  3. noun Treason.

Full definition of treachery

Questions about treachery in a sentence

How do you use treachery in a sentence?
Treachery is used as a noun. For example: “For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.”
What is a short sentence with treachery?
“These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere.”
What does treachery mean?
Treachery means deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.

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