FromMiddle Englishtrecherie, fromOld Frenchtricherie,trecherie, fromtricher,trichier(“to cheat”).
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹi/,/ˈtɹɛt͡ʃɹi/,/ˈt͡ʃɹɛt͡ʃəɹi/,/ˈt͡ʃɹɛt͡ʃɹi/
treachery (countable anduncountable,pluraltreacheries)
- Deliberate, oftencalculated, disregard fortrust orfaith.
2002 March 1, Joan Dupont, “MOVIE GUIDE : 8 Femmes”, inThe New York Times[1]:Suddenly, in the midst of high-camptreachery and sleuthery, each character does a star turn, breaking out in song.
- The act ofviolating theconfidence of another, usually for personalgain.
- Treason.
- (countable) An act or instance of treachery.
1938,Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page78:These submergedtreacheries left an atmosphere. Even two such practised obliterators of their species as Bradly and Podson could not fail to note that each was secreting a certain reservation of opinion on the other.
deliberate disregard for trust or faith
- Azerbaijani:xəyanət (az),vəfasızlıq,xəyanətkarlıq,namərdlik
- Bulgarian:измяна (bg) f(izmjana),предателство (bg) n(predatelstvo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:背信棄義 /背信弃义 (zh)(bèixìnqìyì)
- Finnish:petos (fi)
- French:traîtrise (fr) f
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:Verrat (de) m
- Greek:δολιότητα (el) f(doliótita),κακοπιστία (el) f(kakopistía),επιβουλή (el) f(epivoulí)
- Italian:tradimento (it) m,slealtà (it) f,inganno (it) m
- Japanese:裏切り (ja)(うらぎり, uragiri)
- Kapampangan:kasukaban,kesukaban
- Latin:perfidia f
- Maori:kaikaiwaiūtanga,kaikaiwaiū
- Russian:преда́тельство (ru) n(predátelʹstvo),изме́на (ru) f(izména),вероло́мство (ru) n(verolómstvo)(perfidy)
- Swedish:svek (sv) n,förräderi (sv) n
- Tagalog:kataksilan
- Welsh:brad (cy) m,bradau (cy) m pl
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the act of violating the confidence of another
Translations to be checked
- “treachery”, inCambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “treachery”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “treachery”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “treachery”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
