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
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
For many older Russians, memories of World War II consist mainly of Western perfidy and Russian indomitability.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
You trample upon its peace—you renew your indignities and perfidies here.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore
Here have I been going up and down the world with him for years, and I never knew him until now, never knew the black heart of him, and his abominable perfidies.'
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
Vocabulary lists containing perfidy
The Declaration of Independence
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Excerpt from "The Declaration of Independence"
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