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(noun) deceitfulness; untrustworthiness

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perfidiously
perfidious
perfidy



perfidiously happy-faced

—p.87 Why Bother? (55) by Jonathan Franzen
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9 years, 6 months ago


All the generals cursed the ‘bandits’ of the Provisional Government, excoriated their perfidy, railed against them – but, that denunciation done, they admitted they faced a fait accompli.

—p.80 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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9 years ago


Even after losing the perfidious boyfriend

—p.122 Knot (117) by Rebecca Solnit
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9 years, 4 months ago


Wong’s characters are like zombies moving around somnambulistically in a subtropical urban landscape, abandoned to the elements by a perfidious lover

—p.42 Wong’s Heartbreak Tango: Days of Being Wild (31) by Stephen Teo
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2 years, 9 months ago