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perfidious

/pɚˈfɪdi.əs/

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What does perfidious mean?

adjective

  1. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.

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/pɚˈfɪdi.əs/

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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?
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
Whoever should break this covenant, was to be regarded as a perfidious traitor, and treated by the rest as a common enemy.
Friedrich SchillerThe History of the Thirty Years' WarTranslated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) MorrisonProject Gutenberg ebook #566
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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.
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
This, it has been said, would constitute the senators their own judges, in every case of a corrupt or perfidious execution of that trust.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
He called me a sentimental idealist, and he was right; I called him a vain man, perfidious and crafty, and I also was right.
Bertrand RussellProposed Roads to FreedomProject Gutenberg ebook #690