perfidious
Example Sentences
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“She’s insidious / So perfidious … It’s too late to fix anything / Now that everything has gone wrong.”
From Los Angeles Times
She taught her transplant surgeon the Renegade two weeks after he spent 14 hours removing her perfidious liver.
From New York Times
One person who was wounded, an immigrant from Tunisia, was targeted “in a cowardly, perfidious way, based on his appearance,” the judge said.
From New York Times
The British, who ruled Palestine under a League of Nations mandate, were particularly perfidious.
From Washington Post
“And yet, today, it is the United States — a global leader with supposedly high ideals — that has emerged as the world’s perfidious empire.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.