perfidious
adjective
deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.
perfidiousness
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a word derived from
perfidious.
Example Sentences
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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
I had not been married eight months, when you suspected me of every perfidiousness, and you even told me so.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Guy de Maupassant
But this hope expiring, upon the news that France had refused to sign those articles, all was solved by recourse to the old topic of the French perfidiousness.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Jonathan Swift
What, gracious God! is man," writes Washington, "that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
The senora coquettishly bewailed, in rising and falling inflections, his long absence, his infidelity and general perfidiousness.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte
