perfidiously

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Added Luther's disciple, Melanchthon: "Astute and impious . . . blowing smoke perfidiously before his hearers."

From Time Magazine Archive

Colonel Nicholls became the deputy governor for James, the Duke of York, in administering the affairs of the extended realms which the British government had thus perfidiously seized.

From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

So I swore to him a thousand oaths that I would never deal perfidiously with him, but would be a friend and a helper to him.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John

While the soldier was struggling with the tempest of wind and snow, the flakes, driven by the storm, lodged and accumulated in every hollow; their surfaces concealed unknown abysses, which perfidiously opened beneath our feet.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

The native inhabitants declined to come off until a hostage was left for their security, because a French ship had lately perfidiously carried off two of their number.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles