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单词 perfidious
释义

perfidious

/pəˈfɪdɪəs /
adjective literary
Deceitful and untrustworthy: a perfidious lover...
  • She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.
  • If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
  • The cause of these antinomies is language, for language, being a useful tool, is also a self-locking instrument - and at the same time a perfidious one, since it tells nothing about when it becomes a pitfall itself.

Synonyms

treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous, treasonous, false, untrue, double-dealing, dishonest, two-faced, Janus-faced, untrustworthy
rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic

Derivatives

perfidiously

/pəˈfɪdɪəsli / adverb

perfidiousness

/ˈpəːfɪdi / noun ...
  • It was designed to show ‘the tyranny and perfidiousness exercised by the powerful members of the community against those who are less privileged than themselves’.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin perfidiosus, from perfidia 'treachery'.

Rhymes

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