noun
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Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
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The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
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Treason.
Examples of treachery in a Sentence
The treachery of a foreign guide also added to his difficulties.
But soon afterwards the king, suspecting treachery, resolved to get rid of his enemies once and for all.
His whole life was a tissue of treachery.
She needed time to counter Sirian's well-planned treachery.
A tale of base treachery is told and plans are made.
The Jews seem to have suffered during the war from the treachery of half-hearted friends.
Almost as bad, how many others had died from the treachery of a single Guardian?
With the help of these troops the Phocian League at first carried the war into Boeotia and Thessaly, and though driven out of the latter country by Philip of Macedon, maintained itself for ten years, until the exhaustion of the temple treasures and the treachery of its leaders placed it at Philip's mercy.
The Tsarevich hinted at treachery and demanded a general engagement.
He knew some treachery was afoot, but could not imagine what it was.
But he was taken prisoner by treachery in the summer of 329.
They have a reputation for treachery, and for assaults on shipwrecked crews.
And yet that would involve treachery toward the mistress to whom this woman seems devoted.
There are deeds of his which make humanity shudder, and no man equally great has ever descended to such depths of cruelty and treachery.
Ibrahim, however, by his possession of Druse hostages, restrained the amir, and after the bombardment of Acre, the Turks called him to account for his record of rebellion and treachery.
Hunger, plague, the treachery of his captains and internal discontent at last forced him to surrender (November 1405).
Both parties were exhausted, both were sick of the incessant treachery of their more unscrupulous barons, and at last they came to the compromise of Wallingford (October 1153), by which it was agreed that Stephen should reign for the remainder of his life, but that on his death the crown should pass to Henry.
It was the discovery of the treachery of, this one child whom he had deemed faithful, and loved over well, that broke Henrys heart.
The truce- with France lasted for two years after the death of Duke Humphrey, and came to an end partly owing to the eagerness of the French to push their advantages, but Renewal much more from the treachery and bad faith of Suffolk of the war and Somerset, who gave the enemy an admirable casus belli.
Charles the Bold, whom he had thus deliberately deserted in the middle of their joint campaign, used the strongest language about this mean act of treachery, and with good cause.
There exists a cycle of national songs - sung to this day by the Serb bards (guslari) - concerning the battle of Kossovo, the treachery of Vuk Brankovich and the glorious heroism of Milosh Obilich.
The vain attempts of the Gironde to reconcile the king and the Revolution, the ill-advised decree of the Assembly on the 8th of August, freeing La Fayette from his guilt in forsaking his army; his refusal to vote for the deposition of the king, and the suspected treachery of the court, led to the success of the republican forces when, on the 10th of August, the mob of Paris organized by the revolutionary Commune rose against the monarchy.
Whilst the insurrection in La Vende was spreading, and Dumouriez falling back upon Neerwinden, sentence of death was laid upon migrs and refractory priests; the treachery of Dumouriez, disappointed in his Belgian projects, gave grounds First corn- for all kinds of suspicion, as that of Mirabeau had mittee ot formerly done, and led the Gironde to propose the public new government which they had refused to Danton.
The constitu the tional party, royalist in reality, had made alarming royalists, progress, chiefly owing to the Babouvist conspiracy; they now tried to corrupt the republican generals, and Cond procured the treachery of Pichegru, Kellermann and General Ferrand at Besancon.
After nation.al insurrections and family recriminations came treachery from Napoleons ministers.
This not only placed Gordon in a position of danger, but was regarded by him as an act of treachery.
Another popular notion, that the capture of the place was due to treachery on the part of the garrison, is equally without foundation.
In 333 B.C., after the battle of Issus, it was delivered over by treachery to Parmenio, the general of Alexander the Great; the harem and treasures of Darius had here been lodged.
But while roasting Fafnir's heart, which Regin had cut out, Sigurd burned his finger with the boiling fat and, placing it to his lips, found that he could understand the language of birds, and so learned from the chattering of the woodpeckers that Regin was planning treachery.
Though to death he was wounded he struck so strong a stroke That from the shattered shield-rim forthwith out there broke Showers of flashing jewels; the shield in fragments lay.2 Then reproaching them for their cowardice and treachery, Siegfried fell dying "amid the flowers," while the knights gathered round lamenting.
He died in great poverty in 1714, leaving behind him a great and deserved reputation for treachery.
The former was nicknamed Guastafamiglia, because, although at first willing to let his brother share his power, he rid himself by violence and treachery of other kinsmen who claimed their just rights to a portion of the state.
He wasn.t fooled by any of his brothers, especially Sasha and Rhyn, whose treachery had been too personal for him to forget or forgive.
Cruelty and treachery seem innate in the whole family.
Until we make a break with this sick past then the UK will sink further into a pit of lies deceit and treachery.
Refusal to honor the gods was seen as an act of treachery, weakening the empire at the hour of its greatest need.
It is a somewhat ludicrous undertaking, with many pitfalls the danger of treachery and the risk of ultimate failure in the quest.
Thou wilt not cease to discover treachery from all save a few of them.
More importantly, can there be any greater treachery for a British director to engage upon than ' going Hollywood '?
And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had entrusted to me.
Such repression constituted British treachery and heralded the emergence of a certain Congress member called Gandhi.
And thus they are traitors enough to betray even their own treachery.
He railed at the long-standing treachery of the army.
In the great battle which ensued the Northumbrian army was annihilated and both kings slain (the death of Ella, according to Irish tradition, being due to the treachery of one of his followers).
After Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor, Paulinus asserted that it was in consequence of his own treachery that Otho's army had been defeated.
His eye rested only on superficial characteristics which have served to associate the name " Byzantine " with treachery, cruelty, bigotry and decadence.
The result of the investigations, during which nearly five hundred witnesses were examined, was the disclosure of a system which in treachery and atrocity was little inferior to the old African slave trade.
Despite the treachery of lElfric, the English were victorious; and the Danes sailed off to ravage Lindsey and Northumbria.
At length treachery began to work within.
His attempt to capture Geneva by treachery (1602) failed, and although on the death of Francesco Gonzaga, duke of Mantua and Montferrat, he seized the latter city (1612) he was forced by Spain and her allies to relinquish it.