treachery
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Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
It’s a sprawling tale of divine corruption and human treachery that ends with the world being purified by fire and flood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
His treachery began in 1985 when he gave the Soviets the names of a few KGB officers secretly working for the FBI in exchange for $50,000.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026
“The treachery of your tears is no use to fight injustice,” read one.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024
But after ages alone in the dark Gollum’s heart was black, and treachery was in it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing treachery
The Call of the Wild
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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