All 5 Uses of
treacherous
in
Catch-22
- Captain Black was deeply disillusioned by this treacherous stab in the back from someone in high place upon whom he had relied so confidently for support.†
Chpt 11
- The enlisted men were always treacherous, he decided.†
Chpt 19 *
- 'Yes, I certainly have,' mused the treacherous old man, smiling again.†
Chpt 23
- The chaplain's summer-tan shirt was soaking with perspiration by the time he arrived there and rushed breathlessly back inside the orderly room tent, where he was halted peremptorily by the same treacherous, soft-spoken staff sergeant with round eyeglasses and gaunt cheeks, who requested him to remain outside because Major Major was inside and told him he would not be allowed inside until Major Major went out.†
Chpt 25
- He felt himself falling, falling ecstatically in love with her as she kissed him again and again with lips that were steaming and wet and soft and hard, mumbling deep sounds to him adoringly in an incoherent oblivion of rapture, one caressing hand on his back slipping deftly down inside his trouser belt while the other groped secretly and treacherously about on the floor for the bread knife and found it.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(treacherous as in: a scheming, treacherous assistant) guilty of betrayal or deception or likely to betray or deceive