Perfidious
[pə'fɪdɪəs] or [pɚ'fɪdɪəs]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Tim
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Faithless, unfaithful, treacherous, false, dishonest, disloyal, traitorous, false-hearted.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:false, treacherous, faithless, traitorous, deceptive, disloyal, insidious
ANT:true, staunch, faithful
Typed by Jerry
Definition
adj. faithless: unfaithful: basely violating trust: treacherous.—adv. Perfid′iously.—ns. Perfid′iousness Per′fidy treachery.
Checker: Shelia
Examples
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- King Richard was absent a prisoner, and in the power of the perfidious and cruel Duke of Austria. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Shelia