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betrayal - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | betrayal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibition of disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, treachery, treason, trickery, unfaithfulness, Judas kiss, double-crossing, falseness, giveaway, let-down, perfidy, sellout |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, protection, support |
| Main Entry: | betrayal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divulgence of information |
| Synonyms: | disclosure, revelation, telling, blurting out, diming, giving away, ratting, snitching, spilling, squealing, tattling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, secret |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | disclosure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement, revelation |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, betrayal, broadcast, confession, declaration, discovery, enlightenment, exposé, exposure, handout, leak, make, picture, publication, rundown, snitch*, squeal*, tip*, ventilation, blow-by-blow, divulgation, divulgence, exposal, impartance, impartation, revealing, revealment, tip-off, uncovering, unveilment |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exposé |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, confession, construction, exegesis, explanation, exposition, exposure, interpretation, revelation, truth, divulgence, explication, exposal, uncovering |
| Antonyms: | secret, silence |
| Main Entry: | exposure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncovering; putting in view or danger |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, betrayal, confession, denunciation, disclosure, display, exhibition, exposé, hazard, introduction, jeopardy, liability, manifestation, nakedness, peril, presentation, publicity, revelation, risk, showing, susceptibility, airing, baring, defenselessness, denudation, divulgence, divulging, giveaway, laying open, openness, susceptiveness, susceptivity, unfolding, unmasking, unveiling, vulnerability, vulnerableness |
| Antonyms: | concealment, covering, hiding |
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, fraud, infidelity, skepticism, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, faithlessness, falsity, lewdness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness, bad faith, extramarital relations, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
| Synonyms: | announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, flash, inspiration, leak, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, tip, vision, adumbration, blow by blow, divulgement, earful, epiphany, eye-opener, foreshadowing, lightning bolt, the latest, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treachery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty, dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, corruption, dirty pool*, dirty work*, disaffection, dodge, double-cross*, double-dealing*, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, flimflam*, grift, gyp*, infidelity, racket*, scam*, shell game*, skin game*, spoof, stab in the back*, sweet talk*, treason, two-timing, whitewash*, bunco, dirty dealing, dirty trick, falseness, fast shuffle, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, recreancy, sellout, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | constancy, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, love, loyalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead giveaway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obvious clue |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, leak, telltale, communication leak, exposure of secret, giveaway, telltale sign, unintentional disclosure, unwitting disclosure |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, blarney*, cheat, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dirt, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job*, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trumpery, untruth, beguilement, boondoggle, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, deceptiveness, defraudation, disinformation, dissimulation, dupery, fast one, fraudulence, hokum, trickiness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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