Adjective : a treacherous climb. From Dictionary.com.
Steep axial tilt and rapid rotation increased the treacherousness. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
The treacherousness of this prohibitive measure angered Jakobowski. From Wordnik.com. [Good Night, Mrs. Calabash] Reference
I couldn't tell if he was frightened of Red or ashamed of his own treacherousness or just wallowing in self-pity. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something In A Sunday]
And if we complain of the treacherousness of our memories, — it is the most harmless way of the slipping out of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved] Reference
Once on a time his natural treacherousness broke forth in the fox, and he began to eat the book: for he was greedy for the leather that was bound around the book outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
At Ariah's side throughout her ordeal is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, a man whose own family understands first hand the treacherousness of The Falls. From Wordnik.com. [The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates: Questions] Reference
We don't know that the Founders conducted lengthy discussions and debates, and wrote extensively, about the pitfalls of good intentions and about the treacherousness of relying on charismatic rather than on the rule of law. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Peter Breggin: Cautionary Observations for My Fellow Idealists] Reference
This cannot fail to surprize the Litterary World: who are well acquainted with the treacherousness of memory, and how soon the most happy ideas, for want of sufficient quickness in noting down, are lost in the rapidity of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 34] Reference
He was unaware of the deceit and treacherousness of men. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker] Reference
He can never be properly tamed, and never loses his innate treacherousness, but the puma becomes as tame as. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
Whether the driver had previously experienced the treacherousness of this slope of ice, or whatever his motive might be, he left me to enter and explore alone. From Wordnik.com. [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference
To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person, denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel the disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. From Wordnik.com. [What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams] Reference
He had a handsome face and figure, and a certain consciousness of it even in the abandon of liquor; he had an aggressive treacherousness of eye which his potations had not subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Redwoods] Reference
Not only have you endangered the U.S. as a whole, but you will ultimately split the Democratic Party, for "our" country is re-aligning against the Neo-Conservative Israel-First -- or Only -- treacherousness. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Palestine Blogs] Reference
One row succeeded another with my men; but I was determined to get them out of that town as quickly as possible, for I had heard so much from perfectly reliable and experienced people regarding the treacherousness of the Fan. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
He had experienced that forest life himself, had witnessed it, had passed through it; therefore it gave him the greater enjoyment to look from his height and gaze on those matos, admire their beauty, and be guarded from their treacherousness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian] Reference
I had been musing long that day and earnestly upon the mystery of the lagoons, their opaline transparencies of air and water, their fretful risings and sudden subsidence into calm, the treacherousness of their shoals, the sparkle and the splendour of their sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
The campaign’s success at neutralizing white suspicion while capitalizing on black solidarity underscores the magnitude of its political accomplishment, and the treacherousness, and potential richness, of the social terrain ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Are We White?] Reference
This cannot fail to surprize the Litterary World: who are well acquainted with the treacherousness of memory, and how soon the most happy ideas, for want of sufficient quickness in noting down, are lost in the rapidity of thought. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem] Reference
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