perfidious
/pəˈfɪdɪəs
/adjective literary
Deceitful and untrustworthy: a perfidious lover...
- She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.
- If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
- The cause of these antinomies is language, for language, being a useful tool, is also a self-locking instrument - and at the same time a perfidious one, since it tells nothing about when it becomes a pitfall itself.
Synonyms
treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous, treasonous, false, untrue, double-dealing, dishonest, two-faced, Janus-faced, untrustworthy
rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic
Derivatives
perfidiously
/ adverbperfidiousness
/ noun ...- It was designed to show ‘the tyranny and perfidiousness exercised by the powerful members of the community against those who are less privileged than themselves’.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin perfidiosus, from perfidia 'treachery'.
Rhymes
- mercerization
- mercerize
- Mercer, Johnny
- mercery
- merch
- merchandisable
- merchandise
- merchandiser
- merchandising
- merchant
- merchantability
- merchantable
- merchant account
- merchant adventurer
- Merchant Adventurers
- merchant bank
- merchant banker
- merchant banking
- merchant bar
- merchantess
- merchanting
- merchant iron
- Merchant, Ismail
- merchantlike
- merchantly