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Word entry · 11 letters

treacherous

Best crossword clue

"False-hearted"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aceehorrstuStarts with TEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Dangerous, unreliable, or likely to betray.

Word origin

From Old French trecheros, tricheros (“deceitful”), equivalent to treacher + -ous. See treacher.

Used in a sentence

  • “I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]”
  • “a treacherous mountain trail”
  • “Work on the muskeg resulted in the formation in the first instance, and later in lengths of newly-laid track disappearing without trace into the treacherous bog.”

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