Thesaurus: treachery
Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
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Definitions
- n. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
- n. betrayal of a trust
- n. an act of deliberate betrayal
- Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason. Be ware, ye lords, of their treachery. Chaucer. In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption. Macaulay.
- Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonableor perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
- n:100 n. an act of deliberate betrayal