"double-crossing" meaning in English

See double-crossing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more double-crossing [comparative], most double-crossing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} double-crossing (comparative more double-crossing, superlative most double-crossing)
  1. Which double-crosses.
    Sense id: en-double-crossing-en-adj-GICN7cj9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 49 6 Synonyms: double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, booky [Multicultural-London-English], dastardly, disleal [obsolete], disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart [obsolete], false-hearted, guiled [archaic], guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal [obsolete], infidelitous, insidious [nonstandard], Judaslike, Judasly [uncommon], nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious [obsolete], proditory [obsolete], Punic [ethnic, figuratively, slur], ratlike, recreant [literary, poetic], renegade, reptilian [figuratively], reptitious [figuratively, obsolete], swike [dialectal, obsolete], traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless [archaic, poetic], unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous

Noun

Forms: double-crossings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} double-crossing (countable and uncountable, plural double-crossings)
  1. Betrayal; a double-cross. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-double-crossing-en-noun-s6Ll7jdh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 49 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 56 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 60 3

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} double-crossing
  1. present participle and gerund of double-cross Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: double-cross
    Sense id: en-double-crossing-en-verb-hBXB4dTS

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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