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betrayal
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betrayal
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibition of disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | Judas kiss, deception, dishonesty, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, falseness, giveaway, let-down, perfidy, sellout, treachery, treason, trickery, unfaithfulness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, protection, support |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | disclosure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement, revelation |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, betrayal, blow-by-blow, broadcast, confession, declaration, discovery, divulgation, divulgence, enlightenment, exposal, exposure, exposé, handout, impartance, impartation, leak, make, picture, publication, revealing, revealment, rundown, snitch, squeal, tip*, tip-off, uncovering, unveilment, ventilation |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exposé |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, confession, construction, divulgence, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposal, exposition, exposure, interpretation, revelation, truth, uncovering |
| Antonyms: | secret, silence |
| Main Entry: | exposure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncovering; putting in view or danger |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, airing, baring, betrayal, confession, defenselessness, denudation, denunciation, disclosure, display, divulgence, divulging, exhibition, exposé, giveaway, hazard, introduction, jeopardy, laying open, liability, manifestation, nakedness, openness, peril, presentation, publicity, revelation, risk, showing, susceptibility, susceptiveness, susceptivity, unfolding, unmasking, unveiling, vulnerability, vulnerableness |
| Antonyms: | concealment, covering, hiding |
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, falseness, fickleness, fraud, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, skepticism, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness |
| Antonyms: | belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, bad faith, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, extramarital relations, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, lewdness, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, epiphany, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye-opener, flash, foreshadowing, inspiration, leak, lightning bolt, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, the latest, tip, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling, vision |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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