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perfidious
/pɚˈfɪdi.əs/
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What does perfidious mean?
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
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What if Heraclides be perfidious, malicious, and base, must Dion therefore sully or injure his virtue by passionate concern for it?
Whoever should break this covenant, was to be regarded as a perfidious traitor, and treated by the rest as a common enemy.
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Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them.
This, it has been said, would constitute the senators their own judges, in every case of a corrupt or perfidious execution of that trust.
He called me a sentimental idealist, and he was right; I called him a vain man, perfidious and crafty, and I also was right.