How To Use Perfidy In A Sentence
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Think of the valiant whistleblower inside a corporation or an agency who puts himself at risk to uncover criminal perfidy.
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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...
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When the Seminoles and blacks responded to this perfidy by refusing to cooperate in their removal, Jesup renewed warfare.
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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.
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Beria was more treacherous, more practiced in perfidy and cunning, more insolent and single-minded, than my father.
Twenty Letters to a Father
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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.
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The perfidy and mendacity that follow mesmerize as much as they ring true.
The Race by Richard North Patterson: Book summary
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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
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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
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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)
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Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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The innocent Abel prefigured Christ, while Cain prefigured the deicidal Jews, his fratricide the first of their many acts of perfidy against God and his prophets.
Undefined
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When people have wronged someone, they often hate them for reminding them, by their very presence, of their own perfidy.
THE BLACK OPAL
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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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...
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A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed them -- those acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and for ever.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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His book is a tale of cowardice, perfidy, hubris, idiocy and occasional heroism - told with considerable panache.
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They brook no compromise and instead repay those who would reach out to them with furious perfidy unless they show absolute fealty to every facet of the program.
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Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France.
Annette Wieviorka.
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The Masonic religion should be, by all of its initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. if Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty perfidy, and hatred of man, Barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him?
La Satanism Exposed | Disinformation
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In my readings of British history generally, the word perfidy arises quite often.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient counsel in the cabinets of princes, and has taught kings to tremble at what will hereafter be called the delusive plausibilities of moral politicians.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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Then you include me in a generality on the perfidy of certain men.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
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The call came from the Department of Dunning, a bewildered soul who kept repeating that our August payment was due even as I ventilated on the subject of the check the bank has acknowledged and, more important, cashed and, more broadly, the perfidy and general loathsomeness of her employer.
Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME WEASEL UPDATE
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The cowardly writer of this perfidy had assumed the mantle of anonymity to cloak his misdoings!
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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It would be naive to think that human perfidy is not capable of depriving some of its members of these ingredients so that they can do no more and must depart.
Death, Legal and Illegal
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Maybe she'd understand and forgive, if she knew the true extent of Jason's perfidy.
PAINT THE WIND
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It's about the brutal perfidy of the Conservative government, its gall, its utter lack of class, its willingness to cover up, to prevaricate, to temporize: hell, to lie its way out of a tight spot.
Archive 2009-11-01
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I await the response of someone that believes that perfidy is acceptable in killing Mr. Awlaki.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
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The knowledge of Hurstwood's perfidy wounded her like a knife.
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One that routinely engages in perfidy, intentionally targets civilians, uses hospitals, schools and mosques to hide and fire rockets, transports its soldiers and material using ambulances marked with the red crescent, refuses to abide by a unified command structure, refuses to wear distinctive insignia, .... is not comparable to a “freedom fighter” in any respect except the trivial.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
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I'm sorry if I sound preachy or scolding, but reading about Reid's perfidy - and that's not too strong a word, nor is "iniquitous" - really set something set me off, today.
The Anchoress
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When thou sufferest all this transport and sickness and trouble being enamoured of one who returneth thy passion, how would it be with thee if she whom thou lovest were contrary and contumelious, and thy case were discovered through her perfidy?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night