Both Uses
treachery
in
Oliver Twist
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- For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.†
Chpt 2treachery = betrayal
- That he had, from his birth, displayed no better qualities than treachery, ingratitude, and malice.†
Chpt 17 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(treachery) the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)