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
"My immediate reaction was it's treachery, it's disloyalty" says one of those Badenoch consulted in her parliamentary office.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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
The King went back to the palace planning treachery against the heroes and vowing they should never have the Golden Fleece.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Along the eastern shore of Nantucket, exposed to the delights and treacheries of the Atlantic, lies Sankaty Head.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 3, 2014
On the bright side, we might wonder whether emoji represent a chance to be free, however temporarily, of the constraints and treacheries of language.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 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
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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