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1Perfidious Albion — is a hostile epithet for England or the United Kingdom: perfidious ( see also: ) signifies one who does not keep his faith or word, while Albion is an ancient name for Britain.The use of the adjective perfidious to describe Britain has a long… …
2Perfidious — 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; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Involving, or… …
3perfidious albion — England is known to some as perfidious Albion, implying that it is not trustworthy in its dealings with foreigners …
4perfidious — ► ADJECTIVE literary ▪ deceitful and untrustworthy: a perfidious lover. DERIVATIVES perfidiously adverb perfidiousness noun …
5perfidious — I adjective base, betraying, cheating, conniving, corrupt, deceitful, deceiving, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, disobedient, dissembling, double crossing, double dealing, faithless, false, falsehearted, fraudulent, guileful,… …
6perfidious — 1590s, from PERFIDY (Cf. perfidy) + OUS (Cf. ous) …
7perfidious — *faithless, false, disloyal, traitorous, treacherous Analogous words: *mercenary, venal: disaffected, alienated, estranged (see ESTRANGE): deceitful, *dishonest: perjured, forsworn (see PERJURE) …
8perfidious — [adj] treacherous betraying, deceitful, deceptive, double crossing*, double dealing*, faithless, false, insidious, misleading, recreant, shifty*, slick*, snake in the grass*, traitorous, two faced*, two timing*, undependable, unfaithful, unloyal …
9perfidious — [pər fid′ē əs] adj. [L perfidiosus] characterized by perfidy; treacherous SYN. FAITHLESS perfidiously adv …
10perfidious — [[t]pə(r)fɪ̱diəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe someone as perfidious, you mean that they have betrayed someone or cannot be trusted. [LITERARY] Their feet will trample on the dead bodies of their perfidious aggressors. Syn:… …
