treacherous
tre chuh ruhs
- s dangerously unstable and unpredictable
treacherous winding roads - s tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
the fiercest and most treacherous of foes
treacherous intrigues
- Hu Jintao scaled China's treacherous political heights by playing it safe.
- Once upon a time Americans had a culture of food to guide us through the increasingly treacherous landscape of food choices: fat vs.
- The seizure was perhaps the most brazen in a recent spate of attacks on vessels crossing the world's most treacherous waters.