perfidiousness

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And ultimately, we can’t expect that post-truth culture will somehow collapse because of its perfidiousness.

From New York Times • May 27, 2016

He took for his minister and councillor the Abb� Dubois, "a little, thin man, like a weasel," said Saint-Simon, "in whom all the vices, perfidiousness, avarice, debauchery, ambition, and base flattery, struggled for the mastery."

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

Ah! dear compatriots, be not deceived; you little guess the terrible perfidiousness of that language.

From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max

This piece of intelligence, which had been just received, put me in a violent passion: I accused the Emperor of perfidiousness.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

These inexorable words, combined with her look of pity and reproach—a look that seemed almost amorous on her fair face—gave him an impression of immense perfidiousness.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French