betrayal
/bɪˈtreɪəl
/noun [mass noun]
The action of betraying one’s country, a group, or a person; treachery: the betrayal by the French of their own refugees [count noun]: these developments represented a betrayal of democracy...
- As a father himself he finds such disloyalty and betrayal completely unacceptable.
- The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
- Betrayal, when stemming from childhood, results in an expectation that betrayals will occur again and again, so a person is constantly anticipating them.
Synonyms
disloyalty, treachery, perfidy, perfidiousness, bad faith, faithlessness, falseness;
duplicity, deception, double-dealing;
breach of faith, breach of trust, stab in the back, Judas kiss;
double-cross, sell-out;
French trahison des clercs
rare false-heartedness, Punic faith
revelation, disclosure, divulging, giving away, leaking, leak, telling
rare divulgation
Rhymes
- glamorous
- glamorously
- glamour
- glamour boy
- glamour girl
- glamourize
- glamour model
- glamour modelling
- glamour photographer
- glamour photography
- glamour puss
- glamping
- glam rock
- glance
- glanceability
- glanceable
- glance one's eye
- glancing
- glancingly
- gland
- glanders
- gland of Montgomery
- glandular
- glandular fever
- glans