treachersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by treachery; treacherous
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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!"
- "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."
- "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. [...]”"
Etymology
From treacher + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more treachersome (comparative)
most treachersome (superlative)