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
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  • 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.
  • the perfidious Judas
  • I can imagine that our Government can be as perfidious as any other and there are plenty of perfidious governments around. SAN ANDREAS
  • Not least because it can lead to excessive introspection, individuality, and indeed all forms of privateness were perfidious, and so playing hooky could mean jeopardizing your well-being. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
  • Hibernia, and Kummc would produce from under the counter a paper called Germania, and the two would denounce "perfidious Albion" by the hour. Jimmie Higgins
  • The false ascetic, the perfidious and murderous crone and the old hag-procuress who pimps like Umm Kulsum,341 for mere pleasure, in the luxury of sin, are drawn with an experienced and loving hand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • With this seductive scenario of Saudi Arabian perfidiousness, where all the political pawns are being maneuvered into place by the hand of Saudi Arabia, to achieve calm in Iraq for the benefit of Washington at the expense of Israel is another indicator of the hypocrisy of the controversial American academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • ‘Albion has never seemed so perfidious or so lucky,’ the article begins.
  • Reagan harped on the perfidiousness of big government every chance he got, no matter the specific occasion. Matthew Yglesias » The Filibuster Was Never a Good Idea
  • The mismanagement, secrecy and outright graft of the last administration amount to levels of perfidiousness that are tough to match in any administration. Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of?
  • There goes Oren again, perfidiously trashing the reputation of Prof. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
  • Included as well, according to the government, were "derogatory comments about the perfidiousness of specific persons involved, and statements which might be offensive to nations or governments. Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers
  • Then Miriam was furious, and complained to Minna about what she called her perfidious conduct; but Minna only laughed, and told her she could have Petrofsky instead. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
  • The Baron could, by a single word perfidiously repeated, injure him very much with Alba's mother. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • That they should be doing so for the selfish, narrow-minded, hidebound partisan purposes of avoiding defeat at the hands of the electorate rather than out of any grand point of principle makes their act of dishonest and dishonourable perfidiousness all the more shameful. RIP The UK : Casually Butchered For The Convenience & Well-Being Of Socialism
  • It's how we perfidious Albions give youngsters a bump of locality. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • From the end of 1796 the Venetian Senate secretly continued its armaments, and the whole conduct of that Government announced intentions which have been called perfidious, but the only object of which was to defeat intentions still more perfidious. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
  • To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
  • 'Your nation have well been called perfidious, Major Counsellor. A Modern Mercenary
  • They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
  • The perfidiousness of their ruthless attack boggles the mind of decent Americans. Balkinization
  • he was playing perfidiously one side against the other
  • - where Jews and Judaism are characterized as the perfidious enemy of Islam, and Israel becomes the Salmon Rushdie of the nations. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • It's how we perfidious Albions give youngsters a bump of locality. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • The second thought has to do with Edwards--Edwards may well turn out to be the king maker in this election--Depending on results of the mega primaries, he could have enough delgates to throw to Obama and sink HRC--certainly the egregious robo calls from the clinton campaign criticizing him on fair trade, when BILL himself signed NAFTA speaks to the disreputability and the sheer perfidiousness of the Clintons and their machine. Waiting for the South Carolina results.
  • She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.
  • You say so now, but we all know you spent years masquerading as Prof. Kerr with your perfidiously similar name. The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
  • We wouldn't lie to you about the history of "perfidious" -- even though the word itself suggests deceitfulness. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • I can imagine that our Government can be as perfidious as any other and there are plenty of perfidious governments around. SAN ANDREAS
  • If soldiers are entitled to deal harshly with wounded enemy soldiers who might be engaged in perfidious acts, surely that entitlement can’t be contingent on holding a mini-trial right there to determine the matter. The Volokh Conspiracy » Phil Carter responds:
  • I can imagine that our Government can be as perfidious as any other and there are plenty of perfidious governments around. SAN ANDREAS
  • The cause of these antinomies is language, for language, being a useful tool, is also a self-locking instrument - and at the same time a perfidious one, since it tells nothing about when it becomes a pitfall itself.
  • 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.
  • Nicasio gave Cecilia poisoned water, believing she would reveal his perfidious acts.
  • It is evident, however, that the peculiarities of the latter, and his guileless simplicity, made him a butt for the broad waggery of some of his associates; while others more polished, though equally perfidious, are on the watch to give currency to his bulls and blunders. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Jews and Judaism are characterized as the perfidious enemy of Islam and Israel becomes the Salmon Rushdie of the nations Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Their feet will trample on the dead bodies of their perfidious aggressors.
  • This John, that I took to be the honestest of men; that you took for the same; that was always praising you to me, and me to you, and for nothing so much as for our honest hearts; this very fellow was all the while a vile hypocrite, and a perfidious wretch, and helping to carry on my ruin. Pamela
  • VI., called the Philosopher, had prophesied that a perfidious emperor should be precipitated from the top of this column. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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