Sample Sentences for
perfidy
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    So, she discovered my perfidy, and I had her lured to a dangerous neighborhood and ordered her throat cut.  (source)
    perfidy = act of deliberate betrayal
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    I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition,  (source)
    perfidious = betraying
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    Alf was angry at Joe's perfidy, so he put in a needle.  (source)
    perfidy = betrayal
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    It is ingratitude, perfidy, treachery!  (source)
    perfidy = deliberate betrayal
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    In the days that followed she received two more unsigned letters, as perfidious as the first, but none of the three seemed to be written by the same person.  (source)
    perfidious = not trustworthy
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    "I had one, sir, and, thank God, such as I could wish," cried d'Artagnan; "but it was perfidiously stolen from me."†  (source)
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    No, it's more dangerous than that, for it contains perfidies, corruptions of truth written by a traitor and peddled to the highest bidder.†  (source)
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    He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce."†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Provided I understand your perfidy, sir, and succeed in making you understand that I will be revenged, I shall be reasonable enough," said Albert furiously.  (source)
    perfidy = act of deliberate betrayal
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    Leamas nourished Fiedler's suspicions with hints and oblique indications—never overdone, you understand, never emphasized, but dropped here and there with perfidious subtlety.  (source)
    perfidious = underhanded (not trustworthy)
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    In fact, in addition to that yellow, sickly paleness which indicates the insinuation of the bile in the blood, and which might, besides, be accidental, d'Artagnan remarked something perfidiously significant in the play of the wrinkled features of his countenance.†  (source)
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    And his hatred, like his love, needing to manifest itself in action, he amused himself with urging his evil imaginings further and further, because, thanks to the perfidies with which he charged Odette, he detested her still more, and would be able, if it turned out—as he tried to convince himself—that she was indeed guilty of them, to take the opportunity of punishing her, emptying upon her the overflowing vials of his wrath.†  (source)
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    I stood amazed at the revelation of all this perfidy, looking at Miss Mowcher as she walked up and down the kitchen until she was out of breath:  (source)
    perfidy = deliberate betrayal
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