Sample Sentences for
treacherous
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(editor-reviewed)

treacherous as in:  the road is steep and treacherous

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The road through Afghanistan's Kabul gorge is even more treacherous than the Road of Death in Bolivia.
treacherous = dangerous
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    It's a gorgeous beach, but the waves make swimming treacherous.
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    It was beautiful, but it made walking treacherous.  (source)
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    The world is a treacherous place when you can't see.  (source)
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    Given the treacherous nature of the local topography ... and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario.  (source)
    treacherous = dangerous
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    But the hill was treacherously steep; he was impeded by the snow and his own lack of strength.  (source)
    treacherously = dangerously
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    And speaking of treacherousness, things were not, in any way, progressing as Flora had planned.  (source)
    treacherousness = being dangerous
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The drivers carried the freight themselves over such treacherous footing, and then reloaded the camels.  (source)
    treacherous = dangerous
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    The walls were black and the passageway was treacherously narrow.  (source)
    treacherously = dangerously
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    Between me and Lewiston was the treacherous road with its hairpin turns that twisted back and forth down the mountain.  (source)
    treacherous = dangerous
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    "I told Brinker this morning," I began in a voice treacherously shaking, "that I thought this was the worst—"  (source)
    treacherously = dangerously
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    Parwana's birth was prolonged, agonizing for the mother, treacherous for the baby.  (source)
    treacherous = dangerous
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    The trail twists and turns back on itself, treacherous as the shifting dunes.  (source)
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    Treacherous for people in stockinged feet and unnerving to the four-legged.  (source)
    Treacherous = dangerous (due to being slippery)
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treacherous as in:  a scheming, treacherous assistant

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That was how she uncovered his treacherous plot.
treacherous = betraying trust
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    It was a treacherous act.
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    But her heart, her treacherous heart, rose up joyfully inside of her at the sight of him.  (source)
    treacherous = guilty of betrayal or deception
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    I feel treacherous.  (source)
    treacherous = guilty of betrayal
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    Water sang in the pipes, and the breeze clicked treacherously in the blinds.†  (source)
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    At the same time he warned them that after this treacherous deed the worst was to be expected.  (source)
    treacherous = betraying
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    Scarlett went quickly to defend him from himself, more quickly because treacherously there rose to her mind Rhett's words on this same subject.†  (source)
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    There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.  (source)
    treacherous = untrustworthy
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    Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?†  (source)
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    Our English summers are so treacherous.  (source)
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    Jack crawled after the Triscuits and began to eat them again, sitting by the door she had so treacherously bolted.†  (source)
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    He was friendly, in a treacherous sort of way, smiling into one's face the while he meditated some underhand trick, as, for instance, when he stole from Buck's food at the first meal.  (source)
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    Although the steering wheel was hard under his hands and slick with his cold sweat, although the sound of the engine was familiar, although the freeway was solid under the spinning tires, Joe felt as if he had crossed into another dimension as treacherously amorphous and inimical to reason as the surreal landscapes in Salvador Dalí's paintings.†  (source)
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    Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.  (source)
    treacherous = guilty of betrayal
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