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[ UK /pɜːfˈɪdɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
    treacherous intrigues
    the fiercest and most treacherous of foes
    Punic faith
    the perfidious Judas

How To Use perfidious In A Sentence

  • I refer, of course, not to the evil, perfidious nature of corporate governance because, let's face it, we're all too cowed and defenceless to complain, but to badly dubbed television commercials.
  • Make right the immemorial infamies, perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"
  • It's how we perfidious Albions give youngsters a bump of locality. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.
  • The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it. Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship
  • Or at least those that first perfidiously assaulted the commandos? The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • There goes Oren again, perfidiously trashing the reputation of Prof. Kerr. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
  • I don’t think our beef with OSB is related to perfidiously claiming non-combattant status (himself, anyway). The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations
  • If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
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