Usually means: Betrayal of trust; deceptive action.
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  1. treachery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. treachery: Merriam-Webster
  3. treachery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. treachery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. treachery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Treachery, treachery: Wordnik
  7. treachery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. treachery: Wiktionary
  9. treachery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. treachery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. treachery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. treachery: Dictionary.com
  13. treachery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. treachery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Treachery (Revenge), Treachery (film), Treachery (law), Treachery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Treachery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. treachery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. treachery: Rhymezone
  19. treachery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. treachery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. treachery: FreeDictionary.org
  22. treachery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. treachery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. treachery: Legal dictionary

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  1. Treachery: Encyclopedia

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  1. treachery: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
▸ noun:  The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
▸ noun:  Treason.
▸ noun:  (countable) An act or instance of treachery.

Similar:
treason, perfidy, betrayal, perfidiousness, double-dealing, train, traitorism, trahison, cheating, trickery, more...

Opposite:
loyalty, faithfulness, devotion

Types:
perfidy, betrayal, disloyalty, infidelity, more...

Phrases:
political treachery, The Treachery of Images, Treachery of the Blue Books, Treachery Act 1940, treachery of god, more...

Adjectives:
such, own, deliberate, basest, political, black, double, intended, secret, indian, foul

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Similar:
treason, perfidy, betrayal, perfidiousness, double-dealing, train, traitorism, trahison, cheating, trickery, more...

Opposite:
loyalty, faithfulness, devotion

Types:
perfidy, betrayal, disloyalty, infidelity, more...

Phrases:
political treachery, The Treachery of Images, Treachery of the Blue Books, Treachery Act 1940, treachery of god, defeat by treachery, more...

Adjectives:
such, own, deliberate, basest, political, black, double, intended, secret, indian, foul

Colors:
    crimson,     blood red,     dark red,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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