Thesaurus / treacherous
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He spent almost 200 miles dodging massive hornets and fire ants, hopping from downed tree to downed tree, and crossing treacherous rivers with about 100 other racers and nothing but the food he could carry and an occasional water refill.
CAN A HUNTER OUTRUN AN ANTELOPE? THIS ULTRA-MARATHONER IS FINDING OUT.BY CHRISTINE PETERSON/OUTDOOR LIFENOVEMBER 23, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEPernigotti said that only those who regularly climb in the Alps can appreciate how warmer weather has made the mountains more treacherous.
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING THE ALPS MORE DANGEROUSAGOSTINO PETRONIOCTOBER 23, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEObservations from Earth suggested Bennu should be smooth and sandy, but when OSIRIS-REx arrived, it found a treacherous, rocky landscape.
NASA’S OSIRIS-REX SURVIVED ITS RISKY MISSION TO GRAB A PIECE OF AN ASTEROIDLISA GROSSMANOCTOBER 21, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe incident highlighted the treacherous news landscape where both reporters and policymakers now tread, one in which even protecting children can be weaponized by extremists.
HE’S FIGHTING QANON WITH SUNLIGHTNICK FOURIEZOSSEPTEMBER 6, 2020OZYTo Filner, the treacherous San Diego business insiders, developers and Republicans had rigged the city’s political system to send resources to their pet projects and away from neighborhoods.
POLITICS REPORT: BRY VS. TRANSITANDREW KEATTS AND SCOTT LEWISAUGUST 29, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThis treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe profound and treacherous night with its silence and semblance of peace settled upon the camp.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINIn a sudden, blind choler, she swept round, plucked the dagger from Tressan's belt and flung herself upon the treacherous captain.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIIntellectually she is quite sound, but has a treacherous memory, and is very nervous.
A STATISTICAL INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF EPILEPSYALEXANDER HUGHES BENNETTA faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREWORDS RELATED TO TREACHEROUS
- chancy
- delicate
- dicey
- endangered
- fraught with danger
- going for broke
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- insecure
- jeopardous
- long shot
- not a prayer
- off the deep end
- on slippery ground
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- out on a limb
- perilous
- playing with fire
- precarious
- rocky
- sensitive
- speculative
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- tricky
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unsound
- venturesome
- wicked
- wide-open
- cagey
- collusive
- conniving
- contriving
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- devious
- dishonest
- dodging
- duplicitous
- elusive
- evasive
- fly-by-night
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- insidious
- lying
- mendacious
- prevaricative
- prevaricatory
- roguish
- scheming
- shady
- shrewd
- shuffling
- slick
- slimy
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unhonest
- unprincipled
- untruthful
- wily
- arch
- artful
- astute
- bluffing
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- captious
- conniving
- covert
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- designing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impish
- ingenious
- insidious
- intriguing
- mean
- mischievous
- plotting
- roguish
- scheming
- secret
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- slick
- smart
- smooth
- sneaking
- stealthy
- subtle
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
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