Indeed, they are taken as a sign of his integrity and the perfidious nature of his detractors. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : a perfidious lover. From Dictionary.com.
We wouldn't lie to you about the history of "perfidious" -- even though the word itself suggests deceitfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
'Your nation have well been called perfidious, Major Counsellor. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Mercenary] Reference
Then Prospero tells Miranda of himself and his brother, the "perfidious" Duke. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
English speakers have used "perfidious" to mean "treacherous" since at least 1572. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The original prayer from the rite described the Jews as "perfidious" and accused them of being blind. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
"perfidious" patterns of brain activity even allow the prediction of future behavior. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"perfidious" patterns of brain activity even allow the prediction of future behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Mr. Seward was not "a perfidious old man," but one. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Had he, too, observed these sudden perfidious tactics?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Again was poor Acadia the victim of her perfidious enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
"Do you know that the articles published are very perfidious?". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"More perfidious than the water!" said Monte-Leone, contemptuously. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Alba obeyed the perfidious request absently, and applied her eye to the aperture. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That was in my eyes part of his perfidious and egomanic search for absolute power. From Wordnik.com. [The Outing Of Adolf] Reference
Carthaginians being generally regarded by the Romans as perfidious double-dealers. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
"All the more perfidious because they are founded on truth," said the financier, coldly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Fools, what had we to find in Senegal, to make us trust to the most perfidious of elements!. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
The perfidious marquis then resolved to seek by fraud what he was unable to obtain by force. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
(That's why even the perfidious French voted 17 times in the Security Council to sanction him.). From Wordnik.com. [Why The War Was Right] Reference
After a while Charles, that was my perfidious idol's name, came to me with a long face and confessed. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
That might appease anger in the US against a "British Petroleum" led by a representative of perfidious Albion. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hayward's exit is not enough - BP needs root-and-branch reforms] Reference
Who will now prevent her from yielding herself up to her sentiment for that dangerous and perfidious Dorsenne?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Lincoln's character, she had vainly tried to do so by those fine and perfidious insinuations in which women excel. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His relatives and friends then immediately set about requiting her with the just penalties of a perfidious breach of contract. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was quite as well for England that he did not, for out of the resistance to his perfidious folly sprang the English Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
So of the subtile and crafty, so of the perfidious, so of every one that offendeth, must thou ever be ready to reason with thyself. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Lord Lovat was informed of this event, but he continued to play the deep game which his perfidious mind suggested on all occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
See how the perfidious spider looks harmless in his retired, dark corner; how motionless he is; how patiently he waits for his opportunity!. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
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