All 7 Uses of
treachery
in
1984, by Orwell
- All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.†
p. 12.2 *treacheries = acts of betrayal
- He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.†
p. 102.6treachery = betrayal
- Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.†
p. 187.6
- The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep.†
p. 195.6
- You believed that three men, three one-time Party members named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford men who were executed for treachery and sabotage after making the fullest possible confession — were not guilty of the crimes they were charged with.†
p. 246.6
- Eleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery.†
p. 257.9
- A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.†
p. 267.1
Definition:
the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays