perfidious
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), from perfidia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /pɚˈfɪdi.əs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈfɪdi.əs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪdiəs
Adjective
[edit]perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)
- Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. [from late 16th c.]
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
- 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, “ch. 26”, in William C. Taylor, editor, Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome:
- The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
- 1905, Andrew Lang, “ch. 14”, in John Knox and the Reformation:
- [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
- 2005 June 21, “Art: The Velocipede of Modernism”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 12 November 2011:
- When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.
- 2015 August 28, John Dugdale, “Mario Vargas Llosa, Hola! and the shallow reading of a review”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- Enraged, the 2010 Nobel literature laureate thundered that he was “flabbergasted to learn that this kind of gossip can find its way into a respectable publication such as the Book Review” - a “slanderous and perfidious” instance of the convergence of posh and pop that his book inveighs against.
Synonyms
[edit]- (disloyal): disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]pertaining to perfidy
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