Explore Perfidious through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like punic or treacherous. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Perfidious in a sentence
Perfidious meaning
Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
Synonyms of Perfidious
Using Perfidious
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
- Useful related words include: punic, treacherous, unfaithful.
- In the example corpus, perfidious often appears in combinations such as: the perfidious.
Context around Perfidious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Perfidious
- In this selection, "perfidious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, servile, inevitably, fealty, pollsters and establishment stand out and add context to how "perfidious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the perfidious pollsters who and for his perfidious and false. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "perfidious" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with perfidious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Listen to his media buttosculators finally giving it the coverage it deserves, atoning for their servile, perfidious fealty: (YouTube: tinyurl. (20 words)
And it’s this aversion to losers that’s exploited by inaccurate polls and the perfidious pollsters who produce them. (20 words)
The current neo-Nazi president, Jair Bolsonaro, rewarded Moro for his perfidious and false prosecutions by making him his justice minister. (21 words)
Calhoun predicted that electioneering, political conspiracies, and outright fraud would be employed to mislead and distract a gullible public; inevitably, perfidious demagogues would come to rule the political scene. (29 words)
If only, the right will say, the perfidious establishment had not compromised we would have had a Brexit filled with hope and glory. (23 words)
The current neo-Nazi president, Jair Bolsonaro, rewarded Moro for his perfidious and false prosecutions by making him his justice minister. (21 words)
Example sentences (5)
Listen to his media buttosculators finally giving it the coverage it deserves, atoning for their servile, perfidious fealty: (YouTube: tinyurl.
And it’s this aversion to losers that’s exploited by inaccurate polls and the perfidious pollsters who produce them.
The current neo-Nazi president, Jair Bolsonaro, rewarded Moro for his perfidious and false prosecutions by making him his justice minister.
If only, the right will say, the perfidious establishment had not compromised we would have had a Brexit filled with hope and glory.
Calhoun predicted that electioneering, political conspiracies, and outright fraud would be employed to mislead and distract a gullible public; inevitably, perfidious demagogues would come to rule the political scene.
Common combinations with perfidious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: