Associations to the word «Treacherous»

Wiktionary

TREACHEROUS, adjective. Exhibiting treachery.
TREACHEROUS, adjective. Deceitful; inclined to betray.
TREACHEROUS, adjective. Unreliable; dangerous.

Dictionary definition

TREACHEROUS, adjective. Dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle".
TREACHEROUS, adjective. Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats