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perfidy

[pur-fi-dee] / ˈpɜr fɪ di /




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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

Bristling and increasingly convinced of Western perfidy and decadence, he was in many respects a changed man.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2022

But when Nikki meets him after trailing him to his fancy hotel, his elegant perfidy soon fades in the face of larger, out-and-out treachery.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2021

When I'd said all that nonsense about perfidy, I'd been telling a yarn, hoping that I could distract everyone from my questionable manners.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

The equatorial wilds spread before the safari its wealth of extravagant hues and forms, all its perfidies veiled for the allurement of mortals who would trust nature in her richest manifestations.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French

Many of the falsehoods and perfidies I have detailed have come to light since Macaulay wrote, and there are more behind which will appear in their proper place in Pope's life and works.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander




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