treacherous
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
treacherous /ˈtrɛtʃ(ə)rəs/
▶adjective
- 1 guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.
- 2 (of ground, water, conditions, etc.) having hidden or unpredictable dangers.
– derivatives
treacherously adverb,
treacherousness noun.
treacherously adverb,
treacherousness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. trecherous, from trecheor ‘a cheat’, from trechier ‘to cheat’.
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