| 单词 | perfidious |
| 释义 | perfidious (once / 3367 pages) adj If someone accuses you of being perfidious, you should probably be offended — it means underhanded, treacherous, deceitful — even evil. If you betray people often, you're perfidious: traitors are extremely perfidious. Besides betrayal, this word implies lying and maybe other kinds of awful behavior, like stealing and taking bribes. Everyone tries to avoid perfidious people. Perfidious is kind of an old-fashioned word, but being perfidious will never go out of style, unfortunately. WORD FAMILYperfidious: perfidiously, perfidiousness+/perfidy: perfidies, perfidious USAGE EXAMPLESThe Japanese attack—boldly conceived, assiduously plotted and rehearsed, shamelessly perfidious—torpedoed not only battleships, but American complacency. Wall Street Journal(Dec 07, 2016) And because he believes Clinton uniquely perfidious, this investigation would lead to her prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment. Slate(Oct 10, 2016) She says “once again innocent men, women and children are the victims of cowardly and perfidious violence; I condemn this attack in the strongest terms.” Washington Times(Aug 21, 2016) adj tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans the perfidious Judas Syn punic, treacherous unfaithful not true to duty or obligation or promises |
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