Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a perfidious manner; with perfidy; treacherously; traitorously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a perfidious manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
perfidious manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a perfidious manner
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Examples
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The Baron could, by a single word perfidiously repeated, injure him very much with Alba's mother.
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The Baron could, by a single word perfidiously repeated, injure him very much with Alba's mother.
Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893
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You say so now, but we all know you spent years masquerading as Prof. Kerr with your perfidiously similar name.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010
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There goes Oren again, perfidiously trashing the reputation of Prof. Kerr.
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You say so now, but we all know you spent years masquerading as Prof. Kerr with your perfidiously similar name.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010
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The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship Caitlin Colford 2011
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Or at least those that first perfidiously assaulted the commandos?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010
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The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship Caitlin Colford 2011
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Or at least those that first perfidiously assaulted the commandos?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010
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There goes Oren again, perfidiously trashing the reputation of Prof.
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