Perfidious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Perfidious \Per*fid"i*ous\ (p[~e]r*f[i^]d"[i^]*[u^]s; 277), a.
     [L. perfidious.]
     1. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to
        trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; faithless; as, a
        perfidious friend. --Shak.
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     2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. "Involved in this
        perfidious fraud." --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  perfidious
       adj : tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character
             as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans;
             "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest
             and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
             [syn: {punic}, {treacherous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "perfidious":
     Machiavellian, alienated, ambidextrous, artful, corrupt, crafty,
     crooked, cunning, deceitful, disaffected, dishonest, disloyal,
     double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded,
     double-tongued, doublehearted, duplicitous, estranged, faithless,
     false, false-principled, falsehearted, hypocritical, insidious,
     mercenary, recreant, shifty, slippery, traitorous, treacherous,
     treasonable, treasonous, tricky, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal,
     untrue, venal