(a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
(a.) Involving, or characterized by, perfidy.
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.
Unfaithful
Definition:
(a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
(a.) Not possessing faith; infidel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(3) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.
(4) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
(5) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
(6) But she indicated that he was unfaithful, did not make love to her, and was only interested in her money, of which she had very little.
(7) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
(8) The idea came from Soon-Yi, his wife of 16 years, who told him about the friend of a friend – the wife of a financier who imploded after learning her husband was unfaithful and involved in Ponzi-ish fraud.
(9) The relationship between the courts, the press and parliament has been severely shaken over the past week by a froth of injunctions protecting the identity of allegedly unfaithful footballers and other celebrities.
(10) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
(11) Second, the problem of achieving adequate contrast without the expense of an unfaithful representation of molecular structures is discussed.
(12) DETECTIVE BUNK Bunk likes to hit the sauce and is unfaithful to his wife.
(13) Ruth Ellis had shot an abusive and unfaithful lover in a fit of jealousy.
(14) Either way, she's now being blackmailed by ex-fiance Carl, who has nabbed her mobile phone and wants £30,000 or else Dan gets the truth over a pint of Old Unfaithful.
(15) The written plea hints at a desperation amongst detainees: “We are tired of endless and hopeless life of Manus prison … we would like to request you to do us a big favour and let us know if there is no hope or any chance so that we can call an end to our indefinite limbo here because we are tired of living on this unfaithful earth.” The letter is signed “Asylum seekers of Australia held in Manus”.
(16) A 39-year-old man suddenly became convinced that his wife had once been unfaithful to him, and soon thereafter he became depressed.
(17) For example, the two meals in La Femme Infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife, 1968) pointedly show the shift in the couple's relationship and the child's awareness of it.
(18) Women are, once again, relegated to supporting roles as unfaithful wives, hookers and weirdos.
(19) "Leaving aside him beating up his wife or being unfaithful, this is a guy with a profound sadness in him.
(20) According to Islamic teaching in the area, mental disorders are caused by evil spirits sent by God to punish the unfaithful people.