treachery
/ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹi/
treachery noun: deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
Noun
treachery (countable and uncountable, plural treacheries)
- Deliberate, 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
- The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
- Treason.
- Synonyms:
- perfidy
- An act or instance of treachery.
- These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere. Even two such practised obliterators of their species as Bradly and Podson could not fail to note that each was secreting a certain reservation of opinion on the other.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78
treachery meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
treachery in Tamil
- நம்பிக்கைக்குப் புறம்பாக நடத்தல், நயவஞ்சகம்
treachery in Marathi
- विश्वासघातकीपणा
treachery in Urdu
- دغابازی, غداری
treachery in Bengali
- treachery, betrayal, infidelity
- বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা biśśaśoghatokota
More languagesFewer languages
- treachery in Telugu
- ద్రోహము drōhamu, భేదము bhēdamu
- treachery in Malayalam
- വിശ്വാസവഞ്ചന, വാക്കുമാറ്റൽ, ഒറ്റികൊടുക്കൽ
- treachery in Kannada
- ಎರಡೆಣಿಕೆ, ಆಳಿ, ಹೊಲ್ಲಮೆ, ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಘಾತುಕತನ
- treachery in Punjabi
- دغا daġā, ਦਗ਼ਾ daġā
- treachery in Gujarati
- દગો dago
- treachery in Odia
- ବିଶ୍ବାସଘାତକତା
- treachery in Tagalog
- kataksilan
Examples of treachery in a sentence
- For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.
- Desert islands cannot harbour treachery, even from the enemy hidden within man himself.
- A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.
Synonyms of treachery
- perfidy
- Punic faith
- prodition
- treacherousness
- betrayal
- breach of promise
- breach of trust
- double-dealing
- Judas kiss
- stab in the back
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Forms of treachery
| plural | treacheries |
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Origin of treachery
From Middle English trecherie, from Old French tricherie, trecherie, from tricher, trichier (“to cheat”).
Words formed from treachery
Questions about treachery
- What does treachery mean?
- Treachery means deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
- What is treachery in Tamil?
- Treachery in Tamil is நம்பிக்கைக்குப் புறம்பாக நடத்தல், நயவஞ்சகம். See Treachery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is treachery?
- Treachery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce treachery?
- Treachery is pronounced /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹi/.
- What is the plural of treachery?
- The plural of treachery is treacheries.
Words near treachery in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: treachery (page history and authors); treachery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); treachery (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); treachery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ద్రోహము (Telugu) (page history and authors); treachery (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); treachery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دغا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); દગો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); treachery (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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