| 单词 | perfidy |
| 释义 | perfidy (once / 1587 pages) n If you shared your most embarrassing secrets with a friend who then told them to everyone he knows, his betrayal could be described as perfidy. The noun perfidy means "deceitfulness" or "treachery," so it's not just being mean, but deliberately betraying a trust. The Latin root of perfidy is made up of per, or "through," and fidem, or "faith." So in order for perfidy to happen, there has to have first been a sense of faith in place, which was then broken or betrayed. WORD FAMILYperfidy: perfidies, perfidious+/perfidious: perfidiously, perfidiousness USAGE EXAMPLESNow the court has made explicit the Legislature’s perfidy. Washington Times(Nov 28, 2016) Only the deeply partisan will accept the WikiLeaks documents as evidence of journalistic perfidy. Washington Post(Nov 07, 2016) For this 80 year long perfidy, we paid a price with 9/11. New York Times(Oct 15, 2016) 1n an act of deliberate betrayal Syn|Hypo|Hyper betrayal, treachery, treason double cross, double-crossing an act of betrayal selloutan act of betrayal dishonesty, knavery lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing 2n betrayal of a trust Syn|Hypo|Hyper perfidiousness, treachery insidiousness the quality of being designed to entrap disloyalty the quality of being disloyal |
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