Wondering how to use Perfidy in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as treachery or disloyalty.
Perfidy in a sentence
Perfidy meaning
- A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
- An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
- A state or act of deceit.
Synonyms of Perfidy
Using Perfidy
- The main meaning on this page is: A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust. | An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack. | A state or act of deceit.
- Useful related words include: treachery, perfidiousness, disloyalty, betrayal.
- In the example corpus, perfidy often appears in combinations such as: of perfidy, the perfidy, perfidy of.
Context around Perfidy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Perfidy
- In this selection, "perfidy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, communist, ultimate, historic, published and selfishness stand out and add context to how "perfidy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about her perfidy and acquiescing to perfidy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "perfidy" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with perfidy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Society is fencing opportunities from honest people and acquiescing to perfidy. (11 words)
What is not acceptable is to treat your students with malice, and perfidy, and cruelty. (15 words)
Finally, at the end of the day, Senator Cruz and then Senators Cornyn and Grassley confronted her about her perfidy. (20 words)
Hitler even mustered the patience to listen to Antonescu's lengthy disquisitions on the glorious history of Romania and the perfidy of the Hungarians-a curious reversal for a man who was more accustomed to regaling visitors with tirades of his own". (42 words)
While there is a raft of motivations for such historic perfidy — with several GOP senators politically benefiting from some of the same corrupting influences — one under-examined, non-Russian reason is personal greed. (33 words)
Tottle’s book was of special interest because it came after Robert Conquest — a serial contriver of Communist perfidy — published his widely influential book on the 1930s famine — The Harvest of Sorrow. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
Tottle’s book was of special interest because it came after Robert Conquest — a serial contriver of Communist perfidy — published his widely influential book on the 1930s famine — The Harvest of Sorrow.
Society is fencing opportunities from honest people and acquiescing to perfidy.
We always think that if we lie about Eswatini, this act of perfidy will assist in influencing global action against the authorities of the country, and we missing the point.
It was the ultimate perfidy that exposed his own duplicity: In self-righteously, judgmentally, condemning Dr. King for his personal behaviors, he rationalized the need for King to be murdered.
While there is a raft of motivations for such historic perfidy — with several GOP senators politically benefiting from some of the same corrupting influences — one under-examined, non-Russian reason is personal greed.
Because he sees himself as the savior of Israel, without whom it will fall to the plotting of Arabs and the perfidy of anti-Zionists around the world.
What is not acceptable is to treat your students with malice, and perfidy, and cruelty.
By Edward Said and many others, however, its value as an early exposure of British perfidy has long since been recognized.
Finally, at the end of the day, Senator Cruz and then Senators Cornyn and Grassley confronted her about her perfidy.
He possesses all the necessary requisites of perfidy, selfishness, depravity, want of principle, etc., which would qualify him for the change.
Hitler even mustered the patience to listen to Antonescu's lengthy disquisitions on the glorious history of Romania and the perfidy of the Hungarians-a curious reversal for a man who was more accustomed to regaling visitors with tirades of his own".
Livy speaks of his great qualities, but he adds that his vices were equally great, among which he singles out his more than Punic perfidy and an inhuman cruelty.
Common combinations with perfidy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of perfidy 3×
- the perfidy 2×
- perfidy of 2×
- perfidy and 2×