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perfidiousness
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perfidiousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithlessness |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, disloyalty, doubt, false-heartedness, falseness, falsity, fickleness, fraud*, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidy, skepticism, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disloyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfaithfulness |
| Synonyms: | apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, sedition, seditiousness, subversive activity, treachery, treason, untrueness, violation |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | Judas kiss, artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, dualism, duality, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, perfidiousness, perfidy, skullduggery, stab in back, treacherousness, treachery, two-facedness, twoness |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, falseness, fickleness, fraud, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, skepticism, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness |
| Antonyms: | belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, bad faith, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, extramarital relations, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, lewdness, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | treachery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty, dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, disaffection, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, falseness, fast shuffle, flimflam, grift, gyp, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, racket, recreancy, scam*, sellout, shell game, skin game, spoof, stab in the back, sweet talk, treacherousness, treason, two-timing, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | constancy, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, love, loyalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | false-heartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness |
| Synonyms: | dishonesty, disloyalty, falseness, falsity, perfidiousness, perfidy, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, underhandedness, unfaithfulness |
| Main Entry: | falseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithlessness |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, deceit, deception, dishonesty, disloyalty, false-heartedness, falsification, falsity, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, unfaithfulness |
| Notes: | a falsehood is a false statement, a lie, or untruth; falseness is the state of being false or untrue |
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