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Examples of perfidy in a Sentence
A man who built his entire administration upon demanding unctuous loyalty from his allies now finds himself wounded by their shabby betrayal. You'd have to go back to one of Spain's humpbacked Hapsburgs to find court perfidy of the variety that is currently depleting the president's power.
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Jack Hitt, Mother Jones, January & February 2006
The petty Robespierres on the public stage appeal to "the real America" to rise up in fury against presidential perfidies; yet in poll after poll the real America keeps telling Washington that it has gone bonkers.
—David L. Kirp, Nation, 8 Mar. 1999
I lived there off and on for twenty years, through graduate studies, marriage, the end of marriage, the perfidies of middle age, all the while unaware of passion.
—Susan Barron, New England Monthly, October 1989
They are guilty of perfidy.
his wife's perfidy was a moment of uncharacteristic weakness
Jack Hitt, Mother Jones, January & February 2006
The petty Robespierres on the public stage appeal to "the real America" to rise up in fury against presidential perfidies; yet in poll after poll the real America keeps telling Washington that it has gone bonkers.
—David L. Kirp, Nation, 8 Mar. 1999
I lived there off and on for twenty years, through graduate studies, marriage, the end of marriage, the perfidies of middle age, all the while unaware of passion.
—Susan Barron, New England Monthly, October 1989
They are guilty of perfidy.
his wife's perfidy was a moment of uncharacteristic weakness
Recent Examples on the Web
To Netanyahu’s supporters urging restraint by Israel is an act of perfidy, rather than an instance of a president upholding his oath to protect American interests.
—Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
Drawing on American foreign policy circa 9/11 and the Iraq War, these pieces were huge collages of perfidies that Weinberger fashioned into a narrative of governmental misdeeds.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
For a regime that has staked much of its credibility and political future on the war in Ukraine, Putin and his Kremlin allies need to keep the domestic focus on the perfidy of the foes next door.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
London audiences welcomed a scathing romp about the perfidies of global capitalism.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
Drawing on American foreign policy circa 9/11 and the Iraq War, these pieces were huge collages of perfidies that Weinberger fashioned into a narrative of governmental misdeeds.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
For a regime that has staked much of its credibility and political future on the war in Ukraine, Putin and his Kremlin allies need to keep the domestic focus on the perfidy of the foes next door.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
London audiences welcomed a scathing romp about the perfidies of global capitalism.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Perfidy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfidy. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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perfidy
noun
per·fi·dy
ˈpər-fəd-ē 
plural perfidies
: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal : treachery
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