perfidy
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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
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
“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
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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
Flee, but my curses will reach you—or remain, and I will publish your perfidies to the world; your arts will no longer corrupt others as they have corrupted me!
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
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 Frances Eleanor Trollope
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The Declaration of Independence
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