All 7 Uses
treacherous
in
The Blind Assassin
(Edited)
- The damp wood of the porch steps was treacherous.
p. 135.6treacherous = dangerous
- Grit blows through the air, crumpled paper along the ground; the sidewalks are treacherous with ice, from packed snow nobody's shovelled.
p. 274.2 *
- Places in this house that I could once negotiate with ease have become treacherous: the sash windows are poised like traps, ready to fall on my hands, the stepstool threatens to collapse, the top shelves of the cupboards are booby-trapped with precarious glassware.
p. 367.1
- She called him a lying, treacherous slave-trader, and a degenerate Mammon-worshipping monster.
p. 429.7treacherous = untrustworthy
- He removed his rubber boots carefully and left them on the back porch — Myra has him well trained, he's not allowed to track what she calls his dirt onto what she calls her carpets — then tiptoed in his mammoth socks across my kitchen floor; which, thanks to the energetic scourings and polishings of Myra's woman, is now as slick and treacherous as a glacier.
p. 475.8treacherous = dangerous
- Immediately I felt treacherous.
p. 483.3 *treacherous = guilty of betrayal
- Lost in the woods, and no white stones to mark the way, and treacherous ground to cover.
p. 497.3treacherous = dangerous
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)