treachery

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

Ms Kemkaran previously said those behind the leak were "weak" and "foolish" to have committed an act of "treachery", and that a "thorough investigation" had been launched.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

“I am one of the few the Dark Lord has told. Nevertheless, had I not been in on the secret, Narcissa, you would have been guilty of great treachery to the Dark Lord.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

Conrad’s bleak treacheries and Buchan’s sour anomie became grist to le Carré’s genius.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015

Along the eastern shore of Nantucket, exposed to the delights and treacheries of the Atlantic, lies Sankaty Head.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 3, 2014

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.

From "1984" by George Orwell