- 1. a. Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Source: opted
- 2. adj. dangerously unstable and unpredictable Source: wordnet
- 3. adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans Source: wordnet
- 4. Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper. Syn. -- Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious; plotting. -- Treach"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Treach"er*ous*ness, n. Source: webster
- 5. Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance orfaith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious inprivate life; betraying a trust; faithless.Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak.The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper. Source: adambom
- 6. j:100 s. dangerously unstable and unpredictable Source: ecdict
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