treachersome

comparative more treachersome · superlative most treachersome

1. Characterised or marked by treachery; treacherous

   Kid Curry dismounted. “Stay put whilst I shed some light on the subject. The clay footing around here is sort of treachersome when it's this wet. [...]”

   2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Wild Bunch

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   Tom was now holding forth hotly upon the "onparalleled [sic] rascality and treachersome villainousness" of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature. Elizabeth, her eyes alight, ran swiftly past the gate towards her father.

   1910, Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, Lizbeth of the Dale

   I do wish you'd come away, Princey ! ” said the little girl anxiously. “I b'lieve he's one of those treachersome dogs that you never know what they mean ― There!

   1919, Ruth Belmore Endicott, Carolyn of the Sunny Heart

   Ko-kosh was treachersome but I could outwit his kind. I kept a close watch. He stole back my knife but I got it again. I wanted a gun. I couldn't come south without I had a gun and I couldn't hunt my food. We went north on the Lake of the Hurons.

   1992, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, M. E. Bradford, The Great Meadow

   Synonyms: perfidious, traitorly, traitorsome, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing