treachery

The beauty of “La Petite Irène” and “Pink and Blue” only veils the treachery and cruelty of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

They hear themselves in her lyrics and see themselves in her public persona, as she navigates love, heartbreak, illness, treachery and finding your place in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Lizza, in his own statement, said: “Telling the truth is not harassment and accountability is not an ax, though I understand why Olivia finds it unpleasant to be confronted with her treachery and betrayal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.

From "1984" by George Orwell