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perfidious
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synonyms: recreant, machiavellian, punic ???
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Definition:deceitful; unstrustworthy; faithless (false-hearted)
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Uses:
Torvald: Perfidy!
Malory: No, Torvald, there's no perfidy!
Torvald: You poison my food over a contract?
Malory: Torvald, I swear I didn't...
Torvald: [...] I will tear you down brick by perfidious brick!
Archer. Season 1: Killing Utne (2010)
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Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea,
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Ah, Preciosa! Preciosa! how plain it begins to be that you pride yourself on having more than one adorer. If this be so, finish me first, and then kill off this other, but do not sacrifice both at the same time to your perfidy."
Miguel de Cervantes. La gitanilla
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more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious black-guard.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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to smuggle her to some place where she could be kept for a time in seclusion, that perfidious woman, her eyes tinselled with a smile of complicity for Forcheville,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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the sorrowful voice of the announcer tells us voice-over about their perfidy and ungratefulness.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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In my love-lorn condition, my appetite languished; and I was glad of it, for I felt as though it would have been an act of perfidy towards Dora to have a natural relish for my dinner.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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“it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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