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Treacherous vs Swike - What's the difference?

treacherous | swike |

As adjectives the difference between treacherous and swike

is that treacherous is exhibiting treachery while swike is deceitful; treacherous.

As a verb swike is

to deceive, cheat; betray.

As a noun swike is

deceit; treachery.

treacherous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting treachery.
  • Deceitful; inclined to betray.
  • Unreliable; dangerous.
    • a treacherous mountain trail

    Antonyms

    * (exhibiting treachery) loyal

    Related terms

    * treacher * treachery * trick * trickster * tricky

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    swike

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To stop, blin, cease

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Deceitful; treacherous

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Deceit; treachery
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor
  • * 1848 , Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings :
    • The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike , or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave

    • Related terms

    * (l)