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perfidious

[per-fid-ee-uhs] / pərˈfɪd i əs /


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Malodorous, Nefarious, Obstreperous, Perfidious -- I could go on all day.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2018

Henry Metayer, author of a tragedy called the Perfidious Brother, committed it to Theobald, of Dunciad memory, for examination and correction.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

Perfidious Maid, I might have thought thou'dst prove False to thy Prince, and Rival in my Love.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

To many Frenchmen "Perfidious Albion" was, far more than Germany, the secular foe.

From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)

Forgetting the facts of history, we often smile at the grumblings of the Continental nations anent "Perfidious Albion" and "British gold."

From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Hawthorne, Julian




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