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

Their perfidiousness too well deserves such a penance; and, in short, after having told me where I might hear of her, she disappeared.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

He boasted, however, that he had effected what he could "to aid the brave men who, in Monterey, have determined to die rather than succumb to the invasion and perfidiousness of the Americans."

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz

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