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词汇 perfidy
释义 perfidy
noun[ U ]
 literaryuk /ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/ us /ˈpɝː.fə.di/
behaviour that is not loyal背信弃义(行为);不忠贞(行为)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 perfidy


perfidy
For his opponents, it was proof of his evil genius and perfidy.
The second part of this quotation offers a greater elaboration on the city's perfidy, repeating its name for the third time in fewer than fifteen lines in the poem.
This, we are told, is the result of a breach of faith, of a gross betrayal and of shameless perfidy.
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History has many examples of perfidy and deceit.
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This resolution is an example of perfidy and weakness.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
One act of perfidy on the part of a nation will shatter a reputation.
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They think that this is an act of infinite perfidy.
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He has faced internal problems, unjustified allegations of perfidy, to which he has stood up bravely, as one might expect of this man.
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This country, unhappily, has sometimes a reputation in other lands of unreliability, and occasionally we are accused of perfidy.
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It has been strained, difficult and infected with perfidy.
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Worse than that; international perfidy has become a habit, a policy, a boast.
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We shall be guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened a people's fame.
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He has been using words such as "perfidy"and"gerrymandering" and other adjectives and nouns.
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I do not propose ever to forget the crimes and perfidies of which some of them have been guilty.
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If we fail, history will condemn, not merely the perfidy, but the egregious folly of such a failure.
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