Thesaurus / perfidious
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The British, who ruled Palestine under a League of Nations mandate, were particularly perfidious.
THEY SURVIVED WORLD WAR II — BUT WERE LEFT STRANDED IN GERMANYSTEVEN ROBERTSOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe suspense with which Louis listened to this perfidious confederation, was almost insufferable.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERHe was Honour's self, till he brought the serpent to his bosom, in the shape of his perfidious son.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERPerfidious Carnegie shrank from the task, having recently proclaimed the gospel of good will and harmony.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe artifice of his perfidious secretary was discovered and punished.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONShe had reached the perfidious age when a woman's beauty, like a full-blown rose, fades in a day.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUIt was quite as well for England that he did not, for out of the resistance to his perfidious folly sprang the English Parliament.
LITTLE FOLKS (NOVEMBER 1884)VARIOUSHe called Nino a perfidious traitor and a foolish viper, and an imbecile and the son of an imbecile.
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESMr L—— is blind; he is infatuated; he is absolutely bereaved of judgment by a perfidious, ungrateful, and cruel wretch.
LEONORAMARIA EDGEWORTHHis relatives and friends then immediately set about requiting her with the just penalties of a perfidious breach of contract.
THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, COMPLETEGENERAL PHILIP HENRY SHERIDANWORDS RELATED TO PERFIDIOUS
- adulterine
- cheating
- deceitful
- double-crossing
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- fickle
- foresworn
- inconstant
- incontinent
- moonlighting
- not true to
- of bad faith
- perfidious
- philandering
- recreant
- shifty
- snaky
- sneaking
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unchaste
- unreliable
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- wicked
- arrant
- base
- casuistic
- conscienceless
- corrupt
- crafty
- crooked
- deceitful
- degraded
- degrading
- disgraceful
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- down and dirty
- exploitative
- illegal
- improper
- low-down
- mercenary
- perfidious
- petty
- questionable
- recreant
- ruthless
- scandalous
- scheming
- self-seeking
- selfish
- shady
- shameless
- shifty
- sinister
- slippery
- sly
- two-faced
- unconscientious
- unconscionable
- underhand
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unprincipled
- unworthy
- venal
- wicked
- wrongful
- apocryphal
- cheating
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
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