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adjective
- 1. deceitful and untrustworthy: literary "a perfidious lover"
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The meaning of PERFIDIOUS is of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy. How to use perfidious in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Perfidious.
unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty: She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy. Synonym. treacherous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Disloyalty, betrayal & treason. adulterous. backstabber. betrayal. betrayer. break ranks idiom. chicane. deserter. desertion. faithlessly. faithlessness. false.
If you describe someone as perfidious, you mean that they have betrayed someone or cannot be trusted. [ literary ] Their feet will trample on the dead bodies of their perfidious aggressors.
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.
adjective. Not true to duty or obligation: disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.
unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty: She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy. Synonym. treacherous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Disloyalty, betrayal & treason. adulterous. backstabber. betrayal. betrayer. break ranks idiom. chicane. deserter. desertion. faithlessly. faithlessness. false.
Definition of perfidious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Forms. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the adjective perfidious mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective perfidious. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the adjective perfidious?
PERFIDIOUS meaning: not able to be trusted showing that someone cannot be trusted
Perfidious definition: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful. See examples of PERFIDIOUS used in a sentence.