Adjective
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tending to betray
especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
"Punic faith"
"the perfidious Judas"
"the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"
"treacherous intrigues"
- punic -
dangerously unstable and unpredictable
"treacherous winding roads"
"an unreliable trestle"