perfidious
adjective
deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.
perfidiously
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a word derived from
perfidious.
Example Sentences
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Added Luther's disciple, Melanchthon: "Astute and impious . . . blowing smoke perfidiously before his hearers."
From Time Magazine Archive
If perfidiously received, it binds to punishment for not obeying it, and for deceitfully professing, by vow or oath, to receive it.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
So they brought him before me, abject and humiliated, and I said to him, "O accursed one, why hast thou dealt thus perfidiously with me?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
And the elder of them said, Do ye not know that your father hath received a solemn promise from you, in the name of GOD, and how perfidiously ye behaved heretofore towards Joseph?
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
While the soldier was struggling with the tempest of wind and snow, the flakes, driven by the storm, lodged and accumulated in every hollow; their surfaces concealed unknown abysses, which perfidiously opened beneath our feet.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
