treacheryn.
/ˈtrɛtʃəri/ a. Deceit, cheating, perfidy; violation of faith or betrayal of trust; perfidious conduct.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [noun]
lewnessc1175
treachery?c1225
culvertshipa1250
falsedom1297
felony1297
traitorhead1303
traitory1303
falsenessc1330
falsityc1330
trainc1390
traitorhoodc1470
covin1487
traitorousness1571
Punic faith1590
traitorism1591
treacherousness1610
traitorship1645
bad faith1653
treasonableness1679
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
swikec893
swikedomc893
dwalec950
braida1000
falsec1000
flerdc1000
swikelnessa1023
fakenOE
chuffingc1175
fikenungc1175
bipechingc1200
treachery?c1225
falseshipc1230
guilec1230
telingc1230
swikeheada1250
craftc1275
felony1297
wrench1297
deceitc1300
gabc1300
guiling13..
guilery1303
quaintisec1325
wrenk1338
beswiking1340
falsehood1340
abetc1350
wissing1357
wilec1374
faitery1377
faiting1377
tregetryc1380
fallacec1384
trainc1390
coverture1393
facrere1393
ficklenessc1397
falsagea1400
tregeta1400
abusionc1405
blearingc1405
deceptionc1430
mean?c1430
tricotc1430
obreption1465
fallacy1481
japery1496
gauderya1529
fallax1530
conveyance1531
legerdemain1532
dole1538
trompe1547
joukery1562
convoyance1578
forgery1582
abetment1586
outreaching1587
chicanery1589
falsery1594
falsity1603
fubbery1604
renaldry1612
supercherie1621
circumduction1623
fobbinga1627
dice-play1633
beguile1637
fallaxitya1641
ingannation1646
hocus1652
renardism1661
dodgerya1670
knapping1671
trap1681
joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
mamaguy1971
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun]
swikec893
swikedomc893
swikelnessa1023
lewnessc1175
treachery?c1225
treason?c1225
culvertshipa1250
swikeheada1250
swikeldoma1250
swikelhedea1250
felony1297
traitorhead1303
traitory1303
falsenessc1330
trainc1390
proditionc1425
traitorhoodc1470
covin1487
practicea1513
tradiment1535
traitorousness1571
Punic faith1590
traitorism1591
perfidy1592
perfidiousness1597
perfidity1607
treacherousness1610
traitorship1645
Carthaginian faith1711
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 151 Þe Fox of ȝiscungehaueð hwelpes þeose. tricherie & gile þeofðe & reauelake [etc.].
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2988 Hwou he woren with wronge ledde..with trecherie.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 94 To make amendes to them that by theyr tricherye they haue endomaged.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 231 Dysposyd to trechury and othyr ill tecchis.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iv. sig. P7 But Talus vsde, in times of ieopardy To keepe a nightly watch, for dread of treachery . View more context for this quotation
1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 55 We doubted that some tritcherie would hapen unto us.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tricherie, (whence, as it seemes, our trecherie) cousenage, deceit, a cheating, a beguiling.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 191 In case of any misconduct or treachery, he threatened that the Pilots should be instantly shot.
1867 D. Livingstone 10 Dec. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. x. 258 Treachery was suspected.
b. esp. The deception of perfidy of a traitor; treason against a sovereign, lord, or master.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason
treason?c1225
treacherya1400
hurt majestyc1480
lèse-majestéc1485
perduellion1533
patricide1576
treasonrya1600
perduellism1656
treasonableness1679
lèse-nation1789
treasony1828
trahison1858
parricide1867
fifth columnism1941
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18882 It most nu nede þe writte be fulfild..O iudas and his trecheri [Gött. trechori].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 15476 Bettur..to haue bene deed..þen wiþ a kissyng on þis wise: his lord done triccherye [Vesp. tresun].
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 4 Þe tulk þat þe trammes of tresoun þer wroȝt Watȝ tried for his tricherie.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iii/1 Traytorie, proditio..Treachery, idem.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 98 They preferred the good of their Countrey above all; accounting treachery against it..to be a crime of the greatest concernment.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Treachery, Unfaithfulness, Disloyalty.
1911 G. Milligan in Encycl. Brit. XV. 536/1 In ecclesiastical legend..Judas Iscariot is generally treated as the very incarnation of treachery.
c. With a and plural. An instance of this, an act of perfidy or treason.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > treacherous action > [noun]
treason?c1225
treacheryc1300
trechettingc1330
traisementc1380
betrayinga1382
betraisingc1385
proditionc1425
trayment1468
tradition1483
tradiment1535
foul play1546
betrayment1548
false play1567
betray1600
treacherizing1656
betrayal1817
treasony1828
double-crossing1834
trahison1858
dobbing1968
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > treacherous action > [noun] > instance
treacheryc1300
treasonc1330
troth-breakinga1400
truce-breaking1592
double-cross1896
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > a treacherous act
treacheryc1300
treasonc1330
Sinonism1864
double-cross1896
stab in the back1922
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 443 He þouthe a ful strong trechery. A trayson, and a felony,..forto make.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3870 Laban said, ‘frend, ful blethli.’ Bot þar he did a trecheri.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 141/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They..reuolue, as dogs to their vomits, so they to their treasons and treacheries.
1651 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 235 Hee that discovered to mee a trechery intended by one Tickell against mee in Irelond.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 66/1 Angles jutting out from..the Wall,..for treacheries, and for the safer throwing their Darts..are of some advantage to the Enemy.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council 1st Ser. viii. 151 You hear a child reprimanded about a point of dress, or some trivial thing, as if it had committed a treachery.
d. transferred. A substance that treacherously gives way under the feet.
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > condition for movement > treacherous
treachery1870
trappiness1885
1870 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) III. 277 Slumping clumsily about in the mealy treachery.
1886 G. Allen & M. Cotes Kalee's Shrine xiii. 142 The intervening belt [of mud] was one huge waste expanse of liquid treachery.
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