treachery

the treachery of language.

I can't stand your treachery and deceit.

treachery lying underneath a mask of friendliness

Treachery lurked behind his smooth manners.

His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.

A nineteenth-century adventure yarn , loosely derived from a poem by Lord Byron , Le Corsaire tells of harems , abductions , pirates , pashas , slave girls , treachery , true love and a shipwreck.