Definitions for treachery

treachery treach·er·y

Spelling: [trech-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈtrɛtʃ ə ri/

Treachery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in treachery (aceehrrty).

Definitions for treachery

noun

  1. violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
  2. an act of perfidy, faithlessness, or treason.

Origin of treachery

1175-1225; Middle English trecherie Middle French, Old French, equivalent to trech(ier) to deceive + -erie -ery

Examples for treachery

His treachery, however, had been skillfully concealed for years.

It was not long before they had to pay a heavy penalty for their treachery and inconstancy.

“[C]owardice is worse, treachery is worse, and simple selfishness is worse,” he said.

Through its wrenching, eventually exhausting series of betrayals, Game of Thrones asks, “Is treachery unavoidable?”

How could Robert have learned anything of his treachery to his father?

There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery.

He came a little toward the girl who had accused him of treachery.

I should like to meet him face to face, and charge him with his treachery.

Immediately, the hardline settlers were quick to accuse their own elected officials of all sorts of treachery.

It after wards appears that the scheme of Rumi-naui was one of treachery.

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