treacherous

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It's a gorgeous beach, but the waves make swimming treacherous.

It was beautiful, but it made walking treacherous.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

I could hear Telegonus behind me, pointing out the treacherous places, the slippery roots and rocks.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Given the treacherous nature of the local topography ... and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

But the hill was treacherously steep; he was impeded by the snow and his own lack of strength.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

And speaking of treacherousness, things were not, in any way, progressing as Flora had planned.  (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013

The drivers carried the freight themselves over such treacherous footing, and then reloaded the camels.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

The walls were black and the passageway was treacherously narrow.  (source) Joshua Davis, Spare Parts, 2014

Between me and Lewiston was the treacherous road with its hairpin turns that twisted back and forth down the mountain.  (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

"I told Brinker this morning," I began in a voice treacherously shaking, "that I thought this was the worst—"  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

The damp wood of the porch steps was treacherous.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Treacherous for people in stockinged feet and unnerving to the four-legged.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

He tried desperately not to think about the treacherous consonants lying ahead of him, just waiting to trip him up and stick in his throat, but when he spoke, the words came out fluently like beautiful butterflies taking flight.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

It was a treacherous act.

Is treacherous and cunning, is ruthless, is cruel.  (source) Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, 2002

She called him a lying, treacherous slave-trader, and a degenerate Mammon-worshipping monster.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Water sang in the pipes, and the breeze clicked treacherously in the blinds.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Cyclopes are the most deceitful, treacherous-  (source) Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters, 2006

Jack crawled after the Triscuits and began to eat them again, sitting by the door she had so treacherously bolted.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

I feel treacherous.  (source) Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, 2015

So he sat on the tiles of a dilapidated roof, his back against the cold chimney, his face blackened with soot (for the face is treacherously pale by night), and watched smoke rise into the sky from Capricorn's house.†  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

But her heart, her treacherous heart, rose up joyfully inside of her at the sight of him.  (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013

Sailors called them spears of the merling king, and knew that for every one that broke the surface, a dozen lurked treacherously just below it.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000

"The treacherous are ever distrustful," answered Gandalf wearily.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1955

Together they treacherously lured and killed an elder.†  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003

Dirty, filthy, treacherous little brutes.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, 1956