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treacherous
What does treacherous mean?
treacherous (adjective): dangerously unstable and unpredictable.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use treacherous in a sentence?
- Treacherous winding roads. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce treacherous?
/ˈtɹɛtʃəɹəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does treacherous come from?
From Old French trecheros, tricheros (“deceitful”), equivalent to treacher + -ous.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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likely or expected to happen or become
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foreign, especially in an exciting way
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of the same origin as claimed; genuine
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dangerously unstable and unpredictable
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