Thesaurus:treacherous
English
Adjective
Sense: inclined to betray
Synonyms
- booky (MLE)
- dastardly
- disleal (obsolete)
- disloyal
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- doublehearted
- faithless
- false [⇒ thesaurus]
- falseheart (obsolete)
- false-hearted
- guiled (archaic)
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- illoyal (obsolete)
- infidelitous
- insidious (nonstandard)
- Judaslike
- Judasly (uncommon)
- nonfaithful
- perfidious
- proditorious (obsolete)
- proditory (obsolete)
- Punic (figurative, ethnic slur)
- ratlike
- recreant (poetic, literary)
- renegade
- reptilian (figurative)
- reptitious (obsolete, figurative)
- swike (obsolete, dialect)
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treacherous
- treachersome
- trothless (archaic, poetic)
- unfaithful
- unleal
- unloyal
- unsteadfast
- untrue [⇒ thesaurus]
- viperish
- viperous
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Further reading
- “940. improbity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “treacherous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.