About The Word Perfidious
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Perfidious
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What's The Definition Of Perfidious?
[adj] tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Perfidious: punic | treacherous | unfaithful Related Terms | Find terms related to Perfidious: alienated | ambidextrous | artful | corrupt | crafty | crooked | cunning | deceitful | disaffected | dishonest | disloyal | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | duplicitous | estranged | faithless | false | falsehearted | false-principled | hypocritical | insidious | Machiavellian | mercenary | recreant | shifty | slippery | traitorous | treacherous | treasonable | treasonous | tricky | two-faced | unfaithful | unloyal | untrue | venal See Also | Perfidious In Webster's Dictionary \Per*fid"i*ous\ (p[~e]r*f[i^]d"[i^]*[u^]s; 277), a.
[L. perfidious.]
1. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to
trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a
perfidious friend. --Shak.
2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. ``Involved in
this perfidious fraud.'' --Milton.
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