perfidy
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When his perfidy has been exposed, he says: “What you know you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
A former JAG and current professor at Texas Tech University, Geoffrey Corn, said the U.S. has considered perfidy a crime in non-international armed conflicts.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Bristling and increasingly convinced of Western perfidy and decadence, he was in many respects a changed man.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
But when Nikki meets him after trailing him to his fancy hotel, his elegant perfidy soon fades in the face of larger, out-and-out treachery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
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
The perfidies I recollect Should make me much more circumspect, Reform me both in deed and word, And this fifth canto ought to be From such digressions wholly free.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
It will be seen that Mr. Jones was no match for the perfidies of Mr. Lovelace.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
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The Declaration of Independence
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