noun
pl. -·er·ies- betrayal of trust, faith, or allegiance; perfidy, disloyalty, or treason
- an act of perfidy or treason
Origin of treachery
Middle English trecherie from Old French tricherie, trickery from trichier, to cheat: see trick
noun
Treachery is a betrayal of trust.
An example of treachery is when you cheat on your wife with her best friend.
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noun
pl. treach·er·ies- Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidy.
- The act or an instance of such betrayal.
Origin of treachery
Middle English trecherie from Old French from trichier to trick probably from Vulgar Latin triccāre ; see trick .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural treacheries)
- Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
- The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
- Treason.
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Sentence Examples
- The treachery of a foreign guide also added to his difficulties.
- But soon afterwards the king, suspecting treachery, resolved to get rid of his enemies once and for all.
- With the help of these troops the Phocian League at first carried the war into Boeotia and Thessaly, and though driven out of the latter country by Philip of Macedon, maintained itself for ten years, until the exhaustion of the temple treasures and the treachery of its leaders placed it at Philip's mercy.
- The Jews seem to have suffered during the war from the treachery of half-hearted friends.
- The Tsarevich hinted at treachery and demanded a general engagement.
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