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Meanings of double-crossing in English

An act of betrayal.

Usage of double-crossing in English
1
If Reich wasn't in the Reservation you could peep that double-crossing -
The Demolished Man
2
Arnold Rivers had been double-crossing Dunmore... or had Dunmore been double-crossing Rivers?
Murder in the Gunroom
3
Why, you rotten, double-crossing, blabber-mouthed little tramp, I ought to kill you!
Nothing in her way
4
A disagreement is never a difference of opinion but a form of double-crossing.
The Guardian
5
He then gave a press conference, accusing the Labour government of double-crossing him.
The Guardian
6
Sometimes they can be the clever, double-crossing agents of doom.
Wired
7
Let me have some juice down here, you double-crossing rat.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
8
Nothing like being on the spot to prevent double-crossing.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
9
That's for Irina, whose backstabbing and double-crossing treaties and alliances have become difficulties, to deal with.
The pretender's crown
10
A double-crossing politician, who would have thought it?
The Guardian
11
Come see me, you double-crossing, cursing bastard, you?
Succubi like it hot
12
Otherwise I wouldn't be double-crossing your uncle now.
Running scared
13
He had never once considered double-crossing the giant.
The girl who played with fire
14
She'd try to cheat me out of it, would she, the mocking, arrogant, double-crossing little witch?
A touch of death
15
It was apparently a quarrel among thieves over the spoils, each fearful lest the other was double-crossing.
The Case and the Girl
16
I wonder if you're double-crossing me again?
The Skylark of Space
Double-crossing through the time