treachery
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It's a universe in which players craft stories of heroism, treachery and geopolitical turmoil - and suffer real-life economic consequences.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The move was condemned in some circles at the time with one critic calling it "the greatest treachery against clean athletes in Olympic history".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
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
He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth—the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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