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Synonyms for treacherous

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dangerously unstable and unpredictable

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tending to betray

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"I sincerely hope that the people of Europe will not be tempted to leave behind the safety and soundness of established payment solutions and channels in favour of the beguiling but treacherous promises of Facebook's siren call," Mersch added.
Met Office forecaster Alex Burkill said people need "to be aware that we're in for some treacherous weather".
Many prominent leaders and scholars have strongly objected to the decision, but the leaders of the ruling and the main opposition parties have not raised any voice against the treacherous move.
Only last year, two climbers sent out a distress call after attempting an alpine-style ascent of this treacherous peak in winter, and army aviation had to scramble helicopters to carry the rescue team from the base camp of K2 on the Skardu side of the area to Nanga Parbat, which is on the main Karakoram Highway.
A recent cold snap saw snow fall across most of Renfrewshire with freezing temperatures making roads and pavements treacherous for drivers and walkers.
A Chester school complained to the council in a series of tweets after its pupils were left to trudge through "treacherous" ice.
Okaz newspaper commented on the Houthis and their treacherous nature where it said: In a criminal act of cowardice, the gangs in Yemen yesterday targeted a military parade at the strategically important Al-Anad base north of Aden, proving that Iranian-backed militia is far from committing to any covenants or charters.
He strongly criticized the working president of National Conference, Omer Abdullah for his statement wherein he again tossed the sham and bogus autonomy bogy saying that people and particularly youth are fully aware about the treacherous role played by the NC leadership.'Hypocrisy and treachery is the trait of National Conference', he said and added that NC and all other pro-India parties since its inception had been playing deceit and folly and people of Kashmir are fully aware about their role.
'In my head, several questions are being raised as to whether the Pakistani nation is also treacherous and whether the patriotism of the millions who voted me into power is also questionable,' Nawaz said in his reply.
I read the article, How Turkish politics spills to other nations (Saturday Nation, Oct 6) with dismay as Fethullah Gulen, the mastermind of the treacherous coup plot in Turkey on July 15, 2016, was falsely portrayed as a 'philanthropist Muslim cleric'.
His actions reckless and others in road evening treacherous.
Victims of martial law atrocities have branded the passage of a bill that seeks to abolish the commission tasked to recover the ill-gotten wealth of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos as a 'treacherous move' by the House of Representatives.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said that its staff were battling through "treacherous" conditions over the weekend in order to get to work to continue helping those in need.
A POLICE pest gave officers a six-hour runaround when they could have been answering genuine calls on a "snowy and treacherous" January night.