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Treacherous

  1. adjective

    tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

    “Punic faith”

    Similar: punic, perfidious

  2. adjective

    dangerously unstable and unpredictable

    “treacherous winding roads”

    Similar: unreliable

Word family

treacherously

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Word parts

-ous