as in betrayed
to be unfaithful or disloyal to
she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us
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Recent Examples of double-crossed
Things go awry when he’s double-crossed.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
In Play Dirty, Wahlberg stars a career criminal named Parker, who’s double-crossed by a member of his team after a robbery.
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Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
The Iranians didn’t, however, get to escape with the bearings that would help kick off their nuclear program because the show’s protagonist, Ben Edwards (played by Taylor Kitsch), and the surviving espionage members of Haverford’s team found out that their leader had double-crossed them.
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Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
He had been double-crossed by Guzmán López, who was also on the plane and had been arranging his surrender for some time.
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Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
In Play Dirty, Wahlberg stars a career criminal named Parker, who’s double-crossed by a member of his team after a robbery.
—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
The Iranians didn’t, however, get to escape with the bearings that would help kick off their nuclear program because the show’s protagonist, Ben Edwards (played by Taylor Kitsch), and the surviving espionage members of Haverford’s team found out that their leader had double-crossed them.
—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
He had been double-crossed by Guzmán López, who was also on the plane and had been arranging his surrender for some time.
—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for double-crossed
betrayed
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But that friendship was betrayed as settlers dried up the Gila with upstream dams and diversions.
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Babeuf was betrayed by an informant, put on trial in 1797, and eventually acquitted of conspiracy, but he was executed for committing his ideas about inequality to print.
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“Double-crossed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/double-crossed. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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