All 6 Uses of
perfidy
in
Angela's Ashes
- He says you'll see the bullet holes all over the front and they should be left there to remind the Irish of English perfidy.
Chpt 2 *perfidy = deliberate betrayal
- I ask the man what's perfidy and he says ask your father and I would but we're stopping outside a big building with columns and that's the G.P.O. Mam stays in the motor car while we follow the driver into the G.P.O. There he is, he says, there's your man Cuchulain.†
Chpt 2
- He stands in the middle of the lane and tells the world to step outside, he's ready to fight, ready to fight and die for Ireland, which is more than he can say for the men of Limerick, who are known the length and breadth of the world for collaborating with the perfidious Saxons.†
Chpt 3
- Won't I be busy meanwhile reading my short history of England and finding out all about their perfidy.†
Chpt 8
- That's what Seamus says, perfidy, and I don't know what it means and he doesn't know what it means but if it's something the English do it must be terrible.†
Chpt 8
- In an agony of thirst He hangs on the cross and what is He offered by those perfidious Romans?†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(perfidy) an act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior