perfidious

Example Sentences

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“She’s insidious / So perfidious … It’s too late to fix anything / Now that everything has gone wrong.”

From Los Angeles Times

She taught her transplant surgeon the Renegade two weeks after he spent 14 hours removing her perfidious liver.

From New York Times

One person who was wounded, an immigrant from Tunisia, was targeted “in a cowardly, perfidious way, based on his appearance,” the judge said.

From New York Times

The British, who ruled Palestine under a League of Nations mandate, were particularly perfidious.

From Washington Post

“And yet, today, it is the United States — a global leader with supposedly high ideals — that has emerged as the world’s perfidious empire.”

From Los Angeles Times