perfidy
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Perfidy, lies, cruelty and bigotry are in most cases not offenses that can successfully be prosecuted in court.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2021
Replied Bookbinder: "Perfidy is always possible, but we cannot live on the basis that an adversary may not live up to an agreement."
From Time Magazine Archive
Power and Perfidy Without stretching historical parallel too far, one can perceive in world events today certain startling resemblances to those times devoid of international order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perfidy of statesmen under, 368.His feeling in reference to the Spanish Succession, ii.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
I am far from desiring to lessen the laudable Spirit of Resentment in my Countrymen against those now at War with us, so far as it is justified by their Perfidy and Inhumanity.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
Vocabulary lists containing perfidy
The Declaration of Independence
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A Web of Lies
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Excerpt from "The Declaration of Independence"
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