All 5 Uses
treacherous
in
Flora & Ulysses
(Edited)
- The world is a treacherous place when you can't see.
p. 58.4 *treacherous = dangerous
- Flora didn't bother pointing out to him that the world was a treacherous place when you could see.
p. 58.4
- And speaking of treacherousness, things were not, in any way, progressing as Flora had planned.
p. 58.5treacherousness = being dangerous
- Chapter 44: Her Treacherous Heart
p. 145.1 *treacherous = guilty of betrayal or deception
- But her heart, her treacherous heart, rose up joyfully inside of her at the sight of him.
p. 145.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(treacherous as in: the road is steep and treacherous) dangerous -- often in a non-obvious way
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(2)
(treacherous as in: a scheming, treacherous assistant) guilty of betrayal or deception or likely to betray or deceive
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)