How to Use perfidy in a Sentence

perfidy

noun
  • They are guilty of perfidy.
  • His descriptions of the perfidy of the British élite have the ring of an insider.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
  • With three, four, even five rallies a day, Trump held forth on everything from the perfidy of the Democrats to the awfulness of the weather.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The rest of the week, the two hosts continued to expose the dangerous perfidy of America’s élites.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • No rumor of black perfidy was too outlandish to be believed.
    — Joseph Crespino, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • The speech was very long on the perfidy and neglect of the incumbent administration.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Saudi and Emirati news channels ran with that version of the story, using it as proof of Turkey and Qatar’s perfidy.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Redl took his own life in 1913 after his perfidy came to light, but for Hillenkoetter the story hardly ended there.
    — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 8 June 2022
  • Stanley Kubrick located a superb film, 1957’s Paths of Glory, in the ornate chambers (and the perfidy) of the generals who oversaw the waste of those lives.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But Trump is eager to draw attention to Vindman and what Trump perceives as his perfidy.
    — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Her incoherent answers revolved around the greatness of Trump and the perfidy of his enemies.
    — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 12 May 2017
  • In the long annals of the republic, the White House has seen its share of perfidy and scandal, presidents who cheated on their wives and cheated the taxpayers, who abused their power and abused the public trust.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Jim Geraghty has demonstrated the political perfidy in the White House’s approach to debt relief.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But my Twitter feed and Facebook are starting to get inundated with dozens of posts every day on the perfidy of the Republican party.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2012
  • For a regime that has staked much of its credibility and political future on the war in Ukraine, Putin and his Kremlin allies need to keep the domestic focus on the perfidy of the foes next door.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Anybody who gets Barlow on the phone had better be prepared to talk or trade emails for hours about the nuclear black market, Pakistan's perfidy, his many travails and, now, the nuclear deal with Iran.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2013
  • Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak confront the unimaginable with a day-to-day history of the Warsaw ghetto in all of its agony, perfidy and heroism.
    — Jim Shepard, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • After all, the perfidy of the unified German nation-state is not yet a matter entirely historical.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021
  • This violates the prohibition to kill or injure the adversary by resorting to perfidy, Sari said.
    — Ellie Kaufman, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Shock has turned to a national shunning as America finds unity in President Trump's perfidy.
    — Fox News, 21 July 2018
  • To be sure, there isn’t much more to be said about Trump’s perfidy, and, in the grand scheme of things, even the spectacle of Bolton providing a firsthand account of the President’s lying and venality may not do him much further damage.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Ultimately, Lydgate succumbs to the jealousy of his rivals and to the perfidy of his patron, while the widowed Dorothea must sacrifice the goal of beneficence for the sake of finding happiness with a new husband.
    — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Rational arguments are unlikely to either persuade those convinced of the perfidy of the green transition or allay the grievances that fuel the populist ferment in the West.
    — Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
  • But Iranian hardliners have always opposed it and will argue, with some justice, that their warnings of American perfidy have been borne out.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There are interviews online with Chinese in Ukraine who fear for their lives because of their government’s perfidy, which is well acknowledged inside Ukraine and has led to Ukrainian threats of violence against them.
    — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Officials who behave this way should not be able to escape accountability by making the cost of locating the records that prove their perfidy unaffordable.
    — Bill Lueders, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The nation's citizens should see the evidence of the obscene corruption of Russia's leaders — including Navalny's video expose of Putin's perfidy that's already been viewed more than 80 million times.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • And, besides, reminding voters of Trump’s perfidy is not the same thing as resurrecting Biden’s political standing.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
  • London audiences welcomed a scathing romp about the perfidies of global capitalism.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Most believe that trust involves reliance on another person, and breaching that trust provokes despondency and perfidy.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022

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