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
But the Roman Senate perfidiously rejected the sworn agreement of the consul, made him the scapegoat and delivered him bound to the Numantines, who would have none of him.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
In order to increase his prey, he perfidiously invited the Dutch to take shelter in his ports; and accordingly the East India fleet, very richly laden, had put into Bergen.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume
The history of the most barbarous peoples and times assuredly offers no example, in one and the same family, of an usurpation more perfidiously and atrociously consummated.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by M. (François) Guizot
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
