treachery
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Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
It’s a sprawling tale of divine corruption and human treachery that ends with the world being purified by fire and flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Lizza, in his own statement, said: “Telling the truth is not harassment and accountability is not an ax, though I understand why Olivia finds it unpleasant to be confronted with her treachery and betrayal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
She branded the culprits "cowards" who had committed an act of "treachery".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Le Pen alliances are famously rocky, and the family’s treacheries have for decades delighted the French media.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
“There are treacheries and enmities in abundance against me. Joan Sumner is now claiming she never agreed to marry me. She complains that I have claimed to be richer than I am.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
Along the eastern shore of Nantucket, exposed to the delights and treacheries of the Atlantic, lies Sankaty Head.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 3, 2014
On the bright side, we might wonder whether emoji represent a chance to be free, however temporarily, of the constraints and treacheries of language.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Vocabulary lists containing treachery
The Call of the Wild
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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