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treacherousness

noun

Definition of treacherousnessnext
as in underhandedness

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  1. secrecy
  2. shrewdness
  3. hypocrisy
  4. artfulness
  5. stealthiness
  6. shadiness
  7. deviousness
  8. sneakiness
Noun
  • After 20 years at Guantanamo without charges, alleged Bin Laden associate Abu Zubaydah faces a rare detention review, exposing the secrecy surrounding post-9/11 military justice.
    — ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Integral to an awareness of nuclear dangers is an end to the regime of secrecy—or at least substantial reform.
    — Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of secrecy
Noun
  • Spain’s shrewdness came in their refusal to engage with off-the-ball trivialities.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Instead, Franklin will rise by virtue of hard work and (actual) shrewdness.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Definition of shrewdness
Noun
  • The speech is also a kind of litmus test for translators and adaptors, an opportunity for a politically progressive character to let rip not simply against general human hypocrisy but against the particular sins of a moment.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The title references an Islamic hadith that is meant to shine a light on Ali’s character’s moral hypocrisies and the religious fanatics who surround him in the film.
    — John Ross, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • No need to get bogged down in questions about provenance, artfulness, long-form storytelling, or even metaphors.
    — Robin Givhan, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
  • All of this shone vividly through his work, which shared his joy, artfulness and deep feeling, and most of all privileged human experience and social interaction.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Definition of artfulness
Noun
  • Alois Ruf is a modest man who has grown the family business—Porsche optimization—with a steely stealthiness and notable technical ambition.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
  • But what surprised me most about these curls was the stealthiness of the burn.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Definition of stealthiness
Noun
  • But the gossipy tidbits almost pale next to the eye-opening shadiness of some of the business strategies.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The actor earned breakout status thanks to perfecting a mix of faux-friendliness and corporate shadiness on Severance, and that combo is put to extremely good use here.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026
Definition of shadiness
Noun
  • The piece urges critical inquiry into such claims, emphasizing that human oversight, not AI's inherent deviousness, can be a sizable contributor.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The rules allowed offensive linemen to grapple and hold the bottom of their shoulder pads with savvy bordering on deviousness.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of deviousness
Noun
  • In The Executioners, and the 1962 and 1991 film adaptations of that novel, Cady is a predator specifically of women — even more specifically, young women — and he’s known for this, more so than his sneakiness, cleverness, or time served.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of sneakiness
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“Treacherousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treacherousness. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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