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perfidy

[pur-fi-dee] / ˈpɜr fɪ di /




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They will be promoted on social media and television by washed-up athletes and unscrupulous influencers paid well for their perfidy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

He has persisted in insulting the leaders of these countries for failing to bail him out of his jam, writing long screeds on social media that rail against their alleged perfidy.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

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

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

I ask the man what’s perfidy and he says ask your father and I would but we’re stopping outside a big building with columns and that’s the G.P.O.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

"He was," says Duclos, "powerful from his possessions, a great captain, more ambitious than politic, and, from his ingratitude and his perfidies, worthy of his tragic end."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

The perfidies I recollect Should make me much more circumspect, Reform me both in deed and word, And this fifth canto ought to be From such digressions wholly free.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding


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