perfidious

perfidious

perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command ones fidelity or allegiance.
   • 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Goldsmiths History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:

     The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthemius, and raised the standard of revolt.

   • 1905, Andrew Lang, John Knox and the Reformation, ch. 14:

     [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.

   • 2005 June 21, Robert Hughes, ""Art: The Velocipede of Modernism,"" Time:

     When the Nazis branded Feininger a ""degenerate artist"" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feiningers life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.

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pertaining to perfidy

Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.

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