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# treachery

«treachery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Betraying someone who trusts you; being disloyal or false** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (treachery — uncountable; treacheries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Betraying someone who trusts you; being disloyal or false. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#m1)

2) Hidden danger: the treachery of thin ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Stories, history and the Bible: Judas's treachery in betraying Jesus; traitors in history (the Gunpowder Plot). In The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats take Toad Hall while he is away. Values lessons: the opposite of loyalty and trust.

### examples

- The king was shocked by the treachery of his own brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x1)
- Judas's treachery is told in the Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x2)
- The weasels used treachery to seize Toad Hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x3)
- Betraying a friend's secret is a kind of treachery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x4)
- Beware the treachery of the ice in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x5)
- The story is full of plots and treachery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x6)
- The maiden, suspecting no treachery, gave him the magic ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/#x7)

### note

Mostly uncountable. Adjective: treacherous (can mean disloyal, or dangerous: treacherous roads). Person: traitor. Opposite: loyalty.

### In the corpora

- [And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.281/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «treachery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treachery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.