All 3 Uses of
treachery
in
Arrowsmith
- Wasn't there a technique of manners as there was of experimentation…… Gottlieb's fluent benchtechnique versus the clumsy and podgy hands of Ira Hinkley…… Or was all this inquiry a treachery, a yielding to Duer's own affected standard?†
Chpt 7 *
- To Martin the trembling old man was pitiful, but he had never before been accused of treachery.†
Chpt 22
- Martin worried as much over what he considered his treachery to Clif Clawson as over his desertion of Joyce and John, but this worrying he did only when he could not sleep.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(treachery) the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays