Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other. From LearnThat.org. [Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)]
Noun, : perfidy that goes unpunished. From Dictionary.com.
But much as she loved England she was very loud in denouncing what she called the perfidy of the mother to the brightest of her children. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
In my readings of British history generally, the word perfidy arises quite often. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Beria was more treacherous, more practiced in perfidy and cunning, more insolent and single-minded, than my father. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Letters to a Father] Reference
It would be naive to think that human perfidy is not capable of depriving some of its members of these ingredients so that they can do no more and must depart. From Wordnik.com. [Death, Legal and Illegal] Reference
But the major perfidy is American, since at various stages C.I.A. agents are working both with and against Uighur separatists, the Chinese government, Britons and one another. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But even had he been able to recognize her, he could not have suspected that her perfidy was the occasion of his misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow] Reference
The author uses words like "perfidy" and tells you if you don't know the word to go look it up. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Kid-Lit] Reference
Considering all this, the word I came up with to describe the Globe & Mail's column is "perfidy". From Wordnik.com. [They just can't resist reaching for the sensational] Reference
The English 'perfidy' is at this point a bookish and unusual word and I certainly wouldn't say it was in common use. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This is precisely the kind of perfidy that undermines public trust in the scientific process that Obama pledged to restore. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii Reporter] Reference
What hurts in Eastern Europe is Britain's apparent perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Changing Partners?] Reference
They were shocked at this unanticipated revelation of human perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
But if the FBI is right, money alone does not explain Ames's perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Deadly Mole] Reference
The British accuse him of perfidy, and the Americans are disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [Man In The Middle] Reference
Does the imprudence of Halperin's promise mitigate his perfidy in betraying it?. From Wordnik.com. [Laughed At by Time] Reference
River, have seen the perfidy and injustice resulting from such narrow exactions. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
The necessity for it arises from the perfidy of the President of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
President Clinton was said by his aides to be personally wounded by India's perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Ground Zero] Reference
No doubt he'll rail against Muslim perfidy when the mosque doesn't move? but so what?. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Jones won't be the last Qur'an burning publicity hound] Reference
Yet that might only be the beginning of Canada's perfidy, at least as Washington sees it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dutch Go To Pot] Reference
No; whatever the reader may think about it, I can never believe her guilty of such perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
By the time she is jailed because of her husband's perfidy, we are almost too dazed to care. From Wordnik.com. [From China, With Love] Reference
The president (Blair Underwood) is horrified when he learns of this unconstitutional perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the Lights On, Please] Reference
In later years the overstated number became an article of faith, an emblem of Israeli perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Village Of Blood And Lies] Reference
It may be years, if ever, before Hanssen's soul and psyche reveal the true nature of his perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Quiet Club] Reference
Laying out the perfidy of the terrorists in public would also help on the public-relations front. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: Secret Military Tribunals? When Did The United States Become Peru?] Reference
"Citizens of Nikosia," he said, "I bring you black news of perfidy to our Queen and infant King.". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Before you make up your mind to a career of perfidy, dear, go through a course of physical training. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
"Better swords and daggers, and hearts that are true, than silks and satins, Lowland fops and perfidy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
His career, one of the blackest in the annals of political perfidy and crime, closed shortly before the 24th of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The adventure had furnished him with the evidences of his wife's criminality and his servant's dishonesty and perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
President Cleveland denounced this temporizing, coining the famous expression, "party perfidy and party dishonor" in the. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Berlin is furious at the evident perfidy in Paris that undermined the European Union's much harder line against the Libyan government. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Blackmail] Reference
Adams sulked over Jefferson's perfidy for more than a decade, but he finally swallowed his pride and reached out to his fellow Founder. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia] Reference
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