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

The war has been rife with accusations of treachery from the very beginning.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

“The treachery of your tears is no use to fight injustice,” read one.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

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