Treacherous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Treacherous \Treach"er*ous\, a. [See {Treacher}.]
     Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or
     faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign;
     perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
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           Loyal father of a treacherous son.       --Shak.
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           The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate.
                                                    --Cowper.
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     Syn: Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious;
          plotting.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Treach"er*ous*ly}, adv. --
          {Treach"er*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  treacherous
       adj 1: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding
              roads"; "an unreliable trestle" [syn: {unreliable}]
       2: tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character
          as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic
          faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most
          treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues" [syn: {punic},
           {perfidious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "treacherous":
     Machiavellian, Punic, ambidextrous, artful, calculating, chancy,
     chiseling, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning,
     dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, desultory, dishonest, disloyal,
     double, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced,
     double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, dubious,
     duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted,
     finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hairy, hazardous,
     indirect, infirm, insecure, insidious, insubstantial, jeopardous,
     misleading, perfidious, perilous, precarious, precariousness,
     provisional, recreant, risky, rocky, scheming, shaky, sharp,
     shifting, shifty, slippery, sneaky, surreptitious, temporary,
     tentative, ticklish, tottery, traitorous, trickish, tricky,
     two-faced, uncertain, undependable, underhand, underhanded,
     unfaithful, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unloyal, unpredictable,
     unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast,
     unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrue, untrustworthy, wicked,
     wily