perfidy
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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
“Not doing so will allow perfidy to reign in this agency. You now have audit reports that indicate malfeasance by senior leadership.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
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
And the owners of them, sullen faced, unrepentant, pushed by the Eyes against the walls of their bedrooms, while the sorrowful voice of the announcer tells us voice-over about their perfidy and ungratefulness.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
As soon as her spirits had recovered the double shock they had received from the perfidies of Betty Jacks and Major Allen, she remembered with great satisfaction the discovery made of Agnes's singing powers.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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The Declaration of Independence
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