What's the difference between perfidy and treachery?

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.

Treachery


Definition:

  • (n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All potential treacheries must be assessed by each elderly traveler.
  • (2) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
  • (3) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
  • (4) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
  • (5) Not only did he miss a sitter in a defeat that meant an early exit for Spain, he was also booed throughout by Brazilian fans who cannot forgive his “treachery”.
  • (6) Earlier in the day a last-ditch effort by the junta to stem the violence by offering concessions to their critics – including the passing of a long-awaited "treachery law" that would bar former members of Hosni Mubarak's now-disbanded ruling party from running in the upcoming elections, which are now less than a week away – appeared only to galvanise resistance.
  • (7) And a febrile media culture has developed that rewards treachery.
  • (8) of Jürgen Klopp's side have taken to the attacking midfielder's Facebook page to accuse him of treachery, which is less than ideal preparation ahead of Dortmund's semi-final first leg against Real Madrid tomorrow night, arguably the biggest fixture in the German club's history.
  • (9) "This is rank treachery," Zuckerman replied angrily, while Mountbatten later reported the conversation to the Queen.
  • (10) Zardari's government was accused of treachery over the proposal, which was made in a memo delivered to the US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen.
  • (11) It had been "hard to withstand tribalism", he said, but insisted that working in partnership during a period of crisis was not treachery but "progress".
  • (12) The state news agency KCNA runs a curious combination of brief news items such as its coverage of Clinton's visit, angry denunciations of the treachery of "puppet authorities" in South Korea and long tales of the leadership's care for ordinary people.
  • (13) Former Wallabies player Bill Calcraft eyes Bronwyn Bishop’s Sydney seat Read more Bishop’s office has been inundated with calls complaining of her “treachery”, to the point where her staffers turned off the phones.
  • (14) He sold off natural resources "at random" and committed treachery by selling off land at the Rason special economic zone for five decades, it added, apparently in reference to a deal with Russia.
  • (15) Although I will admit that the fact he preceded this terrible announcement about the treachery of his homeland with a tweet to Ping Pong saying how much he is "looking forward to seeing my fluffy sweet parrot soon!
  • (16) But distrust is equally growing in America, where, in the aftermath of the Bin Laden raid, Pakistan has become a byword for treachery and clumsy deception – even on the comedy stations.
  • (17) The pressure against such "treachery" will be intense – there are parallels here with the crisis Papandreou's grandfather faced as prime minister in 1965.
  • (18) On the one hand, Breivik indicts feminism with causing our alleged "cultural suicide", both by encouraging reproductive treachery and also because women are apparently more supportive of multiculturalism.
  • (19) Ahmed is now between Allah's hands and Allah is a thousand times more powerful than the west.” But there is bitterness too over suspicions, widely shared in militant circles here, of treachery and the belief that fellow Libyans collaborated with US forces to lure Abu Khattala to the outskirts of Benghazi, where he was apparently bundled into a car and driven to a waiting helicopter.
  • (20) When the ISI discovered this "act of treachery", Haqqani, instead of saying that he was acting under orders from Zardari, denied the entire story.