perfidy
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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
Jack soon learns, in Robert Penn Warren’s saga of perfidy and corruption, that Gov. Stark is right.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
For many older Russians, memories of World War II consist mainly of Western perfidy and Russian indomitability.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022
Bristling and increasingly convinced of Western perfidy and decadence, he was in many respects a changed man.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2022
Through the loosely placed boards in the wall floated the bark and jabber of a talk-radio show about the latest soccer perfidy from Argentina, Brazil’s hated rival.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing perfidy
The Declaration of Independence
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