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Grammar : Adv
Spell : per-fid-ee-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈfɪd i əs



Definition of perfidiously

Origin :
  • 1590s, from Latin perfidiosus "treacherous," from perfidia (see perfidy). Related: Perfidiously; perfidiousness.
  • As in treacherously : adv faithlessly
  • As in unscrupulously : adv immorally
  • As in falsely : adv deceitfully
Example sentences :
  • Taking advantage of his absence, they perfidiously vilified him to the king.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 » by Various
  • (Perfidiously to the Marchioness) Look out, you know he's becoming dangerous for you.
  • Extract from : « Three Plays » by Luigi Pirandello
  • Perfidiously, they only sought time to regain their strength.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V » by Various
  • He had been perfidiously treated, and Albuquerque now, in 1511, appeared before the city to call the monarch to account.
  • Extract from : « Ocean's Story; or Triumphs of Thirty Centuries » by Edward Rowland
  • This man entered into a conspiracy with the English, to betray to them the King to whom he had perfidiously sworn allegiance.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Bonaparte » by John S. C. Abbott
  • Thus we learned the dismal place to which your noble daughter had been so perfidiously ensnared.
  • Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But the Prefet's party had perfidiously made thirty of its most devoted adherents vote for Albert, so as to deceive the enemy.
  • Extract from : « Albert Savarus » by Honore de Balzac
  • For it was long believed that Delauney had admitted the people into the first court, and then had perfidiously shot them down.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on the French Revolution » by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • On the testimony of his own letters it is clear he did not mind how tortuously and perfidiously he worked.
  • Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing
  • His mistress loved him as long as his money lasted; when he had no more to throw away upon her she perfidiously betrayed him.
  • Extract from : « The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore » by John R. Hutchinson

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