treacherous
adjective/ˈtrɛtʃərəs/
Frequency rank: #9,414 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Guilty of betrayal or deception; dangerously unreliable or unstable.
Example sentence
The hikers were warned that the mountain path becomes treacherous during winter storms.
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