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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

Carthage is destroyed, because its avarice, perfidiousness, and cruelty, have attained their utmost height.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles

He took for his minister and councillor the Abb� Dubois, "a little, thin man, like a weasel," said Saint-Simon, "in whom all the vices, perfidiousness, avarice, debauchery, ambition, and base flattery, struggled for the mastery."

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

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 Swift, Jonathan