| 词汇 | perfidious |
| 释义 | perfidious adjective literaryuk /pəˈfɪd.i.əs/ us /pɚˈfɪd.i.əs/ unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty: 背信弃义的;不忠贞的 She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.她称新的刑法提案是对民主的肆意践踏。 Synonym treacherous Disloyalty, betrayal & treason adulterous backstabber betrayal betrayer break ranksidiom chicane deserter desertion faithless faithlessly faithlessness false fifth column stab someone in the backidiom tergiversation throw someone to the lionsidiom throw someone under the busidiom traitor treasonable unfaithfulness Examples of perfidiousperfidious They abhor the perfidious means by which they have been deprived of the humanist decalogue. I believe that we have been more incompetent than perfidious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone, throughout the world, must collaborate in investigating and combating this perfidious piracy, which has no country of origin. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They may be perfidious, they may still be totally impenitent, and we must, therefore, take all precautions we think necesary against them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall be told that we are perfidious and cowardly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It offers the promise to our continental colleagues of a less perfidious albion. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This was a perfidious strategy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is a perfidious strategy to brand people who are calling for genuine democracy in the country as extremists so as to take away their credibility. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Does he not know that all that he has been saying (and the like of it) has been the history of our perfidious world since the beginning of time? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I seriously doubt whether during the whole history of civilisation any great nation has ever made as perfidious a record as this in so short a time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole world would be filled with a controversy as to who had in fact been the responsible and perfidious party for tearing up this instrument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They most often occur as pairs of devilish characters who exert their perfidious influence on the main character of the drama. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Already perfidious emissaries have stepped in among us to ferment the destructive leaven prepared by the hands of liberticides. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is not a perfidious or barbarous or fantastically fiendish foe. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Calhoun predicted that electioneering, political conspiracies and outright fraud would be employed to mislead and distract a gullible public; inevitably, perfidious demagogues would come to rule the political scene. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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