treachery
noun
violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
treacheries
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pluralof treachery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Washington simply did not have control of the government and was inadvertently lending credibility to the treacheries being hatched all around him.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
