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100 Best Synonyms for “Betraying”

October 13, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abandoning leaving without support
2. accusing charging with wrongdoing
3. acting as informer reporting on others secretly
4. acting falsely behaving in a disloyal way
5. backstabbing harming someone by secret disloyalty
6. being deceitful acting dishonestly
7. being false to acting disloyally toward
8. being treacherous acting with betrayal
9. being unfaithful to not sexually or emotionally loyal
10. blabbing talking about secrets carelessly
11. breaking faith with violating trust or loyalty
12. breaking trust destroying confidence or loyalty
13. changing sides moving loyalty to opponents
14. cheating on being sexually unfaithful to
15. collaborating with helping the opposing side
16. conning deceiving for advantage
17. consorting with associating disloyally with
18. conspiring against secretly joining against
19. crossing acting treacherously against
20. cuckolding making a partner sexually betrayed
21. deceiving misleading or tricking someone
22. delivering up surrendering to another party
23. deserting leaving disloyally
24. disclosing making private information known
25. disloyal to not faithful or supportive
26. divulging revealing secret information
27. double-crossing deceiving through treachery
28. duping deceiving easily
29. exposing making known or visible
30. faithless to not loyal to
31. false to disloyal toward
32. falsifying making false or deceptive
33. feigning loyalty pretending to be loyal
34. finking on informing on someone
35. forsaking abandoning or renouncing loyalty
36. fraternizing with mixing with the opposing side
37. giving away revealing or exposing
38. giving over yielding into another’s hands
39. giving someone away exposing or revealing someone
40. giving someone up revealing or surrendering someone
41. giving up surrendering or revealing someone
42. going behind one’s back acting secretly against someone
43. going over to joining the other side
44. grassing on informing on someone
45. handing over delivering into another’s control
46. handing someone over delivering someone to others
47. hoodwinking tricking by deception
48. implicating showing involvement in wrongdoing
49. incriminating making someone seem guilty
50. informing against giving information against
51. informing on reporting someone to authorities
52. leaking secretly releasing information
53. leaving in the lurch abandoning when needed
54. letting down failing someone who trusted you
55. letting out making something secret known
56. letting slip revealing unintentionally
57. lying to saying false things to
58. misleading causing someone to believe falsely
59. misrepresenting presenting falsely
60. naming names revealing who was involved
61. narking on informing on someone
62. outing revealing hidden identity or facts
63. peaching on informing against someone
64. perfidious to treacherously unfaithful to
65. philandering on having affairs against a partner
66. playing false acting dishonestly or disloyally
67. playing traitor acting as a betrayer
68. plotting against secretly planning harm against
69. ratting on informing against someone
70. ratting out betraying by informing
71. recreant to disloyal to duty or trust
72. reneging on failing to honor a promise
73. revealing making secret information known
74. sabotaging deliberately damaging secretly
75. selling down the river treacherously handing someone over
76. selling out betraying for personal gain
77. shopping informing against someone
78. snitching on telling on someone secretly
79. spilling revealing information carelessly
80. squealing on informing on someone
81. stabbing in the back betraying secretly and cruelly
82. straying from becoming unfaithful to
83. subverting secretly weakening loyalty or order
84. tattling on reporting someone’s wrongdoing
85. telling on reporting someone’s misdeeds
86. testifying against giving evidence against
87. throwing under the bus sacrificing to save oneself
88. tricking deceiving by cunning
89. turncoating switching sides disloyally
90. turning in reporting someone to authorities
91. turning on suddenly acting against
92. turning over handing someone to others
93. two-timing being romantically unfaithful
94. undermining weakening secretly from within
95. violating confidence disclosing trusted information
96. violating trust breaking someone’s confidence
97. walking out on abandoning someone suddenly
98. witnessing against speaking against as witness
99. working against acting in opposition to
100. yielding up surrendering to another

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