perfidy
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They will be promoted on social media and television by washed-up athletes and unscrupulous influencers paid well for their perfidy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
He has persisted in insulting the leaders of these countries for failing to bail him out of his jam, writing long screeds on social media that rail against their alleged perfidy.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Jack soon learns, in Robert Penn Warren’s saga of perfidy and corruption, that Gov. Stark is right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
“Not doing so will allow perfidy to reign in this agency. You now have audit reports that indicate malfeasance by senior leadership.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
A famous essay in the Baffler, “The Problem With Music,” laid out the perfidies of the major-label system, at the time still in a post-Nirvana feeding frenzy for young rock acts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Swinton Byrne’s own reactions to her fictional lover’s perfidies were more indignant, and less compliant, than what we see onscreen as Julie’s.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Gathering up great and infamous political speeches, his juxtapositions compare and contrast passions and perfidies with subtlety and wit, ranging across the French, Flemish, American and German tongues.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2012
Only through their aberrations, their unconscious perfidies, iniquities, do they develop definiteness of outline and begin to live.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
The equatorial wilds spread before the safari its wealth of extravagant hues and forms, all its perfidies veiled for the allurement of mortals who would trust nature in her richest manifestations.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
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The Declaration of Independence
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