All 3 Uses of
treachery
in
A Passage to India
- Such treachery—if true—would have been the worst in Indian history; nothing so vile, not even the murder of Afzul Khan by Sivaji.†
Chpt 31 *treachery = betrayal
- Mahmoud Ali soon declared that treachery was afoot.†
Chpt 31
- His old lawyer friends wanted him to stop in British India and help agitate, and might have prevailed, but for the treachery of Fielding.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays