What's the difference between dupe and perfidy?

Dupe


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
  • (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (2) 4.13am GMT 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 4:13 4th quarter On 4th & 1 on the GB 18, Kaepernick dupes the Packer line into jumping offsides...and they do!
  • (3) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
  • (4) Years earlier, she had duped him into bankrolling her travels.
  • (5) She is very hurt that he duped her about who he was.
  • (6) Just hours after her admission, two Australian radio DJs impersonating the Queen and Prince of Wales duped hospital staff into divulging intimate medical details.
  • (7) Women are always "vulnerable" dupes, never simply adults who have made decisions.
  • (8) Duped by Mexico’s mafia: Guatemalan couple fall victim to border gang Read more After four years of fruitless appeals she entered the church on 7 August to escape a final deportation order that took effect the following day.
  • (9) A central question will be whether those smuggled were trafficked against their will or were duped into entering the UK illegally, possibly with the offer of a nonexistent job.
  • (10) He thinks the question of whether HP's shareholders were "duped" is irrelevant; Meg Whitman, the current chief executive, was one of those who approved the purchase as a director: "The management and directors of HPQ do not have what it takes to turn this company around.
  • (11) The trade-off is that she got the comfort, but others may now be duped,” he added.
  • (12) Veloso has consistently insisted she was duped into carrying 2.6kg of heroin into Indonesia.
  • (13) Physicians need to know how to avoid becoming duped, dated, impaired or "script doctors."
  • (14) "Heightened [military] pressure forced the LRA to try [its] time-tested tricks of buying time by duping the CAR authorities into 'negotiations' to purportedly allow Kony and his LRA to 'surrender' and resettle in Nzako, CAR," he said.
  • (15) Does he believe they did a good job, or does he share Brian Binley's fears that they were duped by City investors?
  • (16) Albany MP Peter Watson was particularly scathing, saying those who had encouraged Smith had “duped him” into thinking he had the numbers to succeed.
  • (17) The Australian made the most of the contact, collapsing in false agony - and then the aggressor tried to dupe the referee by doing the same.
  • (18) Ward said CTL's vetting procedures had been consistent with local standards, but that no amount of screening could ensure that firms won't be "duped by dishonest clients".
  • (19) Jackson said his sense the audience did not feel duped was supported by a "99.9% positive" response on Facebook and Twitter.
  • (20) Admittedly, this is one of the film's funnier parts, but it also dupes its female lead to an uncomfortable degree, a trend that continues throughout.

Perfidy


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.
  • (3) A defence ministry statement said the rebels "cynically and perfidiously" shot down the plane using anti-aircraft guns and heavy calibre machine guns.
  • (4) After stating earlier this week that "politics have to reassert primacy over the financial markets", she said that the "speculators are our opponents" and described the banks as "perfidious".
  • (5) Donald Trump's homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and enrich others | Adam Gaffney Read more Pelosi is not alone in her perfidy.
  • (6) Perfidious as Albion may be, the other 27 member states did not want to trigger its departure from the union.
  • (7) In part, this results from the reasonable thinking that the financial crisis, or at least the manner of perfidy that led to it, never ended.
  • (8) What is interesting, however, is that in Italy, the work is done to expose these perfidies: if you go into any Feltrinelli bookshop, you will see shelves of books that detail them, by brave reporters working with equally bold examining magistrates like those in Palermo, past and present.
  • (9) That’s all the perfidy of terrorism, to resort to blackmail, death and threats,” the prime minister, Manuel Valls, told Europe 1 radio.
  • (10) He is drawn back again and again to the perfidy of pretty much everybody in the music industry who doesn’t make music themselves.
  • (11) Realism in foreign policy has a long and distinguished tradition, not least in Britain – otherwise the French would never complain about 'perfidious Albion'.
  • (12) The perfidious Poms will keep the two George Stubbs paintings in Greenwich, London, where they will hang in the National Maritime Museum .
  • (13) So the Journal became a repository of all the woes and disappointed hopes suffered in their "hard and horrible struggle against anonymity": critical indignities, lack of sales, the perfidy of reviewers, the unmerited success of friends (some of whom, like Zola, were celebrated for techniques the Goncourts claimed to have pioneered).
  • (14) She has more in common with Blair, too, than she thinks – in her Chilcot appearance it was striking how blame and perfidy and mistakes lie anywhere but at her door.
  • (15) This is, of course, the traditional role of the perfidious Anglo-American world in the French imagination.
  • (16) For Hollywood, which he called "Shepherd's Bush wrapped in cellophane", and the domestic industry he adapted the act in more than 100 films to roles such as the Roundhead colonel in the British civil-war epic The Scarlet Blade (1963), the perfidious Inspector Fred "Nosey" Parker in The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962), and as Stanley Farquhar, the spy who was as inefficient as the dog in The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966).
  • (17) The perfidies of Albion may be many in the eyes of Scottish nationalists but they do not begin to compare to what Catalans feel about Madrid.
  • (18) But the significance of these savage executions – bodies tortured and torched or dumped in a river – lies in the entwining of ideological and narco violence: two nightmares, two perfidious calculations, in one.
  • (19) The EU budget, to those who moved and supported the rebel amendment, is a symbol of the perfidy of the EU itself.
  • (20) In a recent interview the BBC's Stephen Sackur harangued him about Pakistani perfidy.