perfidiousness

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Noun
  • The story follows two neighbors, played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung, who form a deep, unspoken connection after suspecting their spouses of infidelity.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • On top of that, Hegseth had to pay for his two divorces, at least in part due to his own infidelity.
    Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At the time of the case, Bryant admitted to adultery with a 19-year-old resort hotel worker in Colorado but denied the rape allegations, always maintaining that the encounter was consensual.
    George Ramsay, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The article included other remarks related to Carter’s faith − such as the importance of the separation of church and state, a conviction born of Carter’s Southern Baptist upbringing − but the adultery comment opened a rift with Carter’s kin in Christ.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That betrayal then cascaded to a confused arrest, beating, and questioning by Pilate, who by then anticipated rioting.
    Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • What would be the lasting effects of this betrayal from Helena, and how does that seep into how the characters feel about Helly?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Another document, likely written by an officer, recorded acts of disloyalty by North Korean subordinates - a common practice in the totalitarian state, where citizens are encouraged to inform on each other.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Emanuel also happens to be Trump’s former agent, making the president regard Emanuel’s campaign contributions as an even greater magnitude of disloyalty, this source says.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
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