as in infidelity
lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife
perfidiousness eventually led to the couple's divorce
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In the documentary, Stewart suggested that the infidelity reports were true.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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All of a sudden, the conversation is no longer about newfound infidelity rumors but about how Mia waited three years to play that card.Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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The flick was a comedic noir that imagined a Hollywood where cartoons and humans live together, and the plot involved murder, adultery, blackmail and other adult topics.Victoria Edel, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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She’s getting beheaded for committing adultery with a distant cousin.Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
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This season’s storyline guarantees a symphony of intrigue, betrayal, and unrelenting ambition as Madam fights tooth and nail to safeguard her empire and exact her revenge.Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
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This was especially a betrayal of Arab and Muslim American voters who arguably gave Biden his slim 2020 margin of victory in crucial states such as Michigan.Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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His initial refusal to bend the knee—even trying for a last-minute coup at the Republican convention in Cleveland with a protest speech from the stage—put him in the MAGA column for disloyalty.Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Throughout the rest of the movie, Donald demonstrates his mastery of these methods in a relentless and brazen series of betrayals, disloyalties, cruelties.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Perfidiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfidiousness. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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