perfidious
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Samuel Pepys knew him; the British diarist thought him “a perfidious rogue.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The head of one of them, who preferred to remain anonymous, described it as a "perfidious and effective" strategy.
From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025
But in the Disney+ series “Agatha All Along,” Hahn pulls from all the disparate strands of her body of work to play the perfidious, power-hungry witch Agatha Harkness.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2024
“If the initial findings are confirmed, it will be a perfidious attack on our electricity infrastructure,” Stübgen said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024
“Behold, campers, this vile and destructive creature! This killer of songbirds! This murderer of chipmunks! This perfidious predator!”
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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