perfidious
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/pɚˈfɪdi.əs/
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/pɚˈfɪdi.əs/ (US) · /pəˈfɪdi.əs/
Definition of perfidious
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
“TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.”
“The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.”
“[S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.”
“When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.”
“Enraged, the 2010 Nobel literature laureate thundered that he was “flabbergasted to learn that this kind of gossip can find its way into a respectable publication such as the Book Review” - a “slanderous and perfidious” instance of the convergence of posh and pop that his book inveighs against.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), from perfidia.
Words you can make from perfidious
200+ playable · top: PROSIFIED (15 pts)
Best play prosified 15 points8-letter words
3 words7-letter words
6 words6-letter words
42 words- POUFED 12 pts
- FIORDS 10 pts
- SURFED 10 pts
- DOPERS 9 pts
- DOPIER 9 pts
- DRUPES 9 pts
- DUPERS 9 pts
- FURIES 9 pts
- PEDROS 9 pts
- PERDUS 9 pts
- PERIOD 9 pts
- POISED 9 pts
- POURED 9 pts
- PRIDES 9 pts
- PRISED 9 pts
- PROSED 9 pts
- PRUDES 9 pts
- PSEUDO 9 pts
- PURSED 9 pts
- REDIPS 9 pts
- ROUPED 9 pts
- SOUPED 9 pts
- SPIDER 9 pts
- SPIRED 9 pts
- SPORED 9 pts
- UPSIDE 9 pts
- ESPOIR 8 pts
- EURIPI 8 pts
- POISER 8 pts
- POSEUR 8 pts
- POSIER 8 pts
- UPRISE 8 pts
- UPROSE 8 pts
- DISEUR 7 pts
- DORIES 7 pts
- DOUSER 7 pts
- IODISE 7 pts
- IRIDES 7 pts
- IRISED 7 pts
- ROUSED 7 pts
- SOURED 7 pts
- UREDOS 7 pts
5-letter words
99 words- POUFS 10 pts
- PROFS 10 pts
- DEFIS 9 pts
- FEODS 9 pts
- FEUDS 9 pts
- FIDOS 9 pts
- FIORD 9 pts
- FIRED 9 pts
- FORDS 9 pts
- FRIED 9 pts
- FUSED 9 pts
- DIPSO 8 pts
- DOPER 8 pts
- DOPES 8 pts
- DORPS 8 pts
- DRIPS 8 pts
- DROPS 8 pts
- DRUPE 8 pts
- DUPER 8 pts
- DUPES 8 pts
- FIRES 8 pts
- FORES 8 pts
- FOURS 8 pts
- FRIES 8 pts
- FRISE 8 pts
- FROES 8 pts
- PEDIS 8 pts
- PEDRO 8 pts
- PERDU 8 pts
- PORED 8 pts
- POSED 8 pts
- PRIDE 8 pts
- PRIED 8 pts
- PRODS 8 pts
- PROUD 8 pts
- PRUDE 8 pts
- PSEUD 8 pts
- REDIP 8 pts
- REIFS 8 pts
- RIPED 8 pts
- ROPED 8 pts
- SERIF 8 pts
- SIPED 8 pts
- SPIED 8 pts
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- URPED 8 pts
- PERIS 7 pts
- PIERS 7 pts
- PIOUS 7 pts
- POISE 7 pts
- PORES 7 pts
- POSER 7 pts
- POURS 7 pts
- PRIES 7 pts
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- PROSE 7 pts
- PURIS 7 pts
- PURSE 7 pts
- REPOS 7 pts
- RIPES 7 pts
- ROPES 7 pts
- ROUPS 7 pts
- SIRUP 7 pts
- SPEIR 7 pts
- SPIER 7 pts
- SPIRE 7 pts
- SPORE 7 pts
- SPRUE 7 pts
- SUPER 7 pts
- DOERS 6 pts
- DORES 6 pts
- DOSER 6 pts
- DOUSE 6 pts
- DRIES 6 pts
- DRUSE 6 pts
- DURES 6 pts
- DUROS 6 pts
- EIDOS 6 pts
- IRIDS 6 pts
- REDOS 6 pts
- RESID 6 pts
- RESOD 6 pts
- RIDES 6 pts
- RODES 6 pts
- ROIDS 6 pts
- ROSED 6 pts
- SIRED 6 pts
- SORED 6 pts
- SUDOR 6 pts
- UREDO 6 pts
- URSID 6 pts
- EUROS 5 pts
- OSIER 5 pts
- OURIE 5 pts
- ROUES 5 pts
- ROUSE 5 pts
- SIEUR 5 pts
4-letter words
49 words- FOPS 9 pts
- DEFI 8 pts
- DIFS 8 pts
- FEDS 8 pts
- FEOD 8 pts
- FEUD 8 pts
- FIDO 8 pts
- FIDS 8 pts
- FORD 8 pts
- FUDS 8 pts
- DEPS 7 pts
- DIPS 7 pts
- DOPE 7 pts
- DORP 7 pts
- DRIP 7 pts
- DROP 7 pts
- DUPE 7 pts
- DUPS 7 pts
- FEUS 7 pts
- FIRE 7 pts
- FIRS 7 pts
- FOES 7 pts
- FORE 7 pts
- FOUR 7 pts
- FROE 7 pts
- FURS 7 pts
- FUSE 7 pts
- EPOS 6 pts
- DESI 5 pts
- DIES 5 pts
- DIRE 5 pts
- DOER 5 pts
- DOES 5 pts
- DORE 5 pts
- DORS 5 pts
- DOSE 5 pts
- DOUR 5 pts
- DUES 5 pts
- DUOS 5 pts
- DURE 5 pts
- DURO 5 pts
- IDES 5 pts
- IRED 5 pts
- IRID 5 pts
- ODES 5 pts
- EROS 4 pts
- EURO 4 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- IRIS 4 pts
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