Treachery meaning

trĕch'ə-rē
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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The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
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Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidy.
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Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
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The act or an instance of such betrayal.
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Betrayal of trust, faith, or allegiance; perfidy, disloyalty, or treason.
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An act of perfidy or treason.
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Origin of treachery

  • Middle English trecherie from Old French from trichier to trick probably from Vulgar Latin triccāre trick
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English trecherie, from Old French tricherie, trecherie, from tricher, trichier (“to cheat"), from Middle Dutch trek (“a trick"), from trekken (“to draw, play a trick on"). More at trick.
    From Wiktionary

Treachery 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.

  • Almost as bad, how many others had died from the treachery of a single Guardian?

  • His name is chiefly associated with the quarrels between Lothair and Louis the Pious, in which he espoused the cause of the former, for whom, in the Campus Mendacii (Liigenfeld, field of lies), as it is usually called (833), he secured by his treachery a temporary advantage.

  • 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.

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