All 4 Uses of
treacherous
in
Babbitt
- His feet were loud on the steps as he clumped upstairs at the end of this great and treacherous day of veiled rebellions.†
Chpt 7
- You've done enough fooling!" he reproved the treacherous soap, and defied the scratchy nail-brush with "Oh, you would, would you!"†
Chpt 7
- But they came out into a treacherous summer night, the air lazy and a little moon above transfigured maples.†
Chpt 24 *
- He was permitted to kiss his wife; he saw a thin dark nurse fit the cone over her mouth and nose; he stiffened at a sweet and treacherous odor; then he was driven out, and on a high stool in a laboratory he sat dazed, longing to see her once again, to insist that he had always loved her, had never for a second loved anybody else or looked at anybody else.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(treacherous as in: a scheming, treacherous assistant) guilty of betrayal or deception or likely to betray or deceive