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perfidy

[pur-fi-dee] / ˈpɜr fɪ di /




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They will be promoted on social media and television by washed-up athletes and unscrupulous influencers paid well for their perfidy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Unaware of Samary’s perfidy, Gomina, 50, ordered Samary to meet him at QRF headquarters to organize a team to rescue Issa and his family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

A former JAG and current professor at Texas Tech University, Geoffrey Corn, said the U.S. has considered perfidy a crime in non-international armed conflicts.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

Now, those who are convinced of the perfidy of cats won’t like the answers that are emerging.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

A famous essay in the Baffler, “The Problem With Music,” laid out the perfidies of the major-label system, at the time still in a post-Nirvana feeding frenzy for young rock acts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

Swinton Byrne’s own reactions to her fictional lover’s perfidies were more indignant, and less compliant, than what we see onscreen as Julie’s.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

Gathering up great and infamous political speeches, his juxtapositions compare and contrast passions and perfidies with subtlety and wit, ranging across the French, Flemish, American and German tongues.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2012

Presently she said, "O Ghazban, say me, wilt thou help me against the perfidies of Fortune and conceal my secret if I discover it to thee?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Am not I, who have all along, and in time, protested against thy barbarous and ungrateful perfidies to a woman so noble, entitled to drive remorse, if possible, into thy hitherto-callous heart?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson


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