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perfidy
/ˈpɝ.fɪ.di/
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What does perfidy mean?
noun
- A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
- An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
- A state or act of deceit.
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Why did he abandon us to our imperfect logic, especially when our egoism must find a pretext in his acts of injustice and perfidy?
Her little brain had been surging with contradictory feelings—shame at exposure, shame at Hurstwood’s perfidy, anger at Drouet’s deception, the mockery he had made at her.
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It doubles the security to the people, by requiring the concurrence of two distinct bodies in schemes of usurpation or perfidy, where the ambition or corruption of one would otherwise be sufficient.
He turned from him; and Montraville starting up from the ground, where he had thrown himself, and at that instant remembering the perfidy of Belcour, flew like lightning to his lodgings.
He was ultimately persuaded to give up the project, seeing that there was no reason for suspecting the waiter of especial perfidy.—F.D.) Accordingly he came and slept at my father’s house.