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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

Presently she said, "O Ghazban, say me, wilt thou help me against the perfidies of Fortune and conceal my secret if I discover it to thee?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Whitman, Stephen French