How To Use perfidy In A Sentence
- Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Think of the valiant whistleblower inside a corporation or an agency who puts himself at risk to uncover criminal perfidy.
- The day the nadir of his perfidy is brought to light, he will effectively have put the lives of hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions of Americans and more worrisome to him — American Interests (“Cha-CHING!”) in exponentially greater jeopardy than before. Look 'Pon The Devil's Brow...An Impossibility...
- When the Seminoles and blacks responded to this perfidy by refusing to cooperate in their removal, Jesup renewed warfare.
- With possible political perfidy such a hot topic at Westminster, it is with perfect timing that the Lyceum and Citizens' theatres bring two of England's great plays of history and politics to the stage.
- Beria was more treacherous, more practiced in perfidy and cunning, more insolent and single-minded, than my father. Twenty Letters to a Father
- But to fail as Jeffrey Harrison does, so unambitiously, so droopily, to leave the plate with three called strikes-it smacks of faithlessness, of a kind of shrugging perfidy, a knowledge of what's expected.
- The perfidy and mendacity that follow mesmerize as much as they ring true. The Race by Richard North Patterson: Book summary
- But much as she loved England she was very loud in denouncing what she called the perfidy of the mother to the brightest of her children. Tales of all countries
- For, in the reign of this monarch, Paris the Trojan, returning home with Helen whom he had stolen, was driven by a storm into one of the mouths of the Nile, called Canopic; and from thence was conducted to Proteus at Memphis, who reproached him in the strongest terms for his base perfidy and guilt, in stealing the wife of his host, and with her all the effects in his house. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)