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A man who built his entire administration upon demanding unctuous loyalty from his allies now finds himself wounded by their shabby betrayal. You'd have to go back to one of Spain's humpbacked Hapsburgs to find court perfidy of the variety that is currently depleting the president's power.
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Jack Hitt, Mother Jones, January & February 2006
The petty Robespierres on the public stage appeal to "the real America" to rise up in fury against presidential perfidies; yet in poll after poll the real America keeps telling Washington that it has gone bonkers.
—David L. Kirp, Nation, 8 Mar. 1999
I lived there off and on for twenty years, through graduate studies, marriage, the end of marriage, the perfidies of middle age, all the while unaware of passion.
—Susan Barron, New England Monthly, October 1989
They are guilty of perfidy.
his wife's perfidy was a moment of uncharacteristic weakness
Jack Hitt, Mother Jones, January & February 2006
The petty Robespierres on the public stage appeal to "the real America" to rise up in fury against presidential perfidies; yet in poll after poll the real America keeps telling Washington that it has gone bonkers.
—David L. Kirp, Nation, 8 Mar. 1999
I lived there off and on for twenty years, through graduate studies, marriage, the end of marriage, the perfidies of middle age, all the while unaware of passion.
—Susan Barron, New England Monthly, October 1989
They are guilty of perfidy.
his wife's perfidy was a moment of uncharacteristic weakness
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Those intrepid few who still clung to the belief that American perfidy shielded Duke’s players from true justice just had the rug pulled out from under them by Mangum herself.
—The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Rational arguments are unlikely to either persuade those convinced of the perfidy of the green transition or allay the grievances that fuel the populist ferment in the West.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
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The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Rational arguments are unlikely to either persuade those convinced of the perfidy of the green transition or allay the grievances that fuel the populist ferment in the West.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
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“Perfidy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfidy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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perfidy
noun
per·fi·dy
ˈpər-fəd-ē 
plural perfidies
: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal : treachery
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