What is another word for treacheries?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈɛt͡ʃəɹiz] (IPA)

Treacheries are acts or behaviors that betray trust or loyalty towards someone or something. Synonyms for treacheries include deceit, disloyalty, betrayal, perfidy, duplicity, infidelity, dishonesty, falseness, and insincerity. Deceit implies deliberately misleading someone for personal gain or advantage. Disloyalty is the act of breaking allegiance or loyalty to someone or something. Betrayal is a grave act of breaking trust or faith with someone. Perfidy implies a deliberate breaking of promises or agreements. Duplicity is the act of deceiving someone by pretending to be something or someone else. Infidelity is being unfaithful to someone, often in a romantic sense, while dishonesty is the act of telling lies or being untruthful. Falseness implies insincerity or a lack of authenticity, while insincerity is the act of not being genuine or truthful.

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Usage examples for Treacheries

She had a dreadful fear that they would never get away; that somehow at the last moment he would fail her; that the doctors held one of their accustomed treacheries in reserve; but nothing happened.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
But if Virginia was still a Huff, remembering past treacheries and living in the expectancy of more, the Widow cast aside all petty heart-burnings in her joy at the humiliation of Stiff Neck George.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
To him this individual represented every imaginable form of evil; and, from the first to the last minute of that long series of tragedies, murders, attempts at spying and assassination, treacheries and deliberate shootings, all conceived with the same object and the same spirit, that one figure stood out as the very genius of crime.
"The Woman of Mystery"
Maurice Leblanc

Famous quotes with Treacheries

  • Dear God, who are the whole splendor of things and the sacred stars, but also the cruelty and greed, the treacheries And vileness, insanities and filth and anguish: now that this thing comes near us again I am finding it hard To praise you with a whole heart.
    Robinson Jeffers

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