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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    The trail twists and turns back on itself, treacherous as the shifting dunes.  (source)
    treacherous = dangerous
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    Parwana's birth was prolonged, agonizing for the mother, treacherous for the baby.  (source)
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    Gandalf the Grey caught like a fly in a spider's treacherous web!  (source)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Our English summers are so treacherous.  (source)
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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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    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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    She listened to his smooth and treacherously friendly voice.†  (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)
    treacherous = untrustworthy
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