treachery

«treachery» in Mova's school dictionary: Betraying someone who trusts you; being disloyal or false — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (treachery — uncountable; treacheries)

meaning for a pupil

1) Betraying someone who trusts you; being disloyal or false. tree →

2) Hidden danger: the treachery of thin ice. tree →

sense in the lessons

Stories, history and the Bible: Judas's treachery in betraying Jesus; traitors in history (the Gunpowder Plot). In The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats take Toad Hall while he is away. Values lessons: the opposite of loyalty and trust.

examples

• The king was shocked by the treachery of his own brother. tree →
• Judas's treachery is told in the Bible. tree →
• The weasels used treachery to seize Toad Hall. tree →
• Betraying a friend's secret is a kind of treachery. tree →
• Beware the treachery of the ice in spring. tree →
• The story is full of plots and treachery. tree →
• The maiden, suspecting no treachery, gave him the magic ring. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable. Adjective: treacherous (can mean disloyal, or dangerous: treacherous roads). Person: traitor. Opposite: loyalty.

In the corpora

• And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «treachery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.