Thesaurus:betrayal
English
Noun
Sense: the act of violating faith or trust
Synonyms
- betrayal
- breach of promise
- breach of trust
- double-dealing
- Judas kiss
- perfidiousness (rare)
- perfidy
- prodition (obsolete)
- Punic faith (archaic)
- stab in the back
- swike (dialect, obsolete)
- tergiversation
- traitory (obsolete)
- treacherousness
- treachery
- treason
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Further reading
- “940. improbity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “betrayal” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.