as in infidelity
lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife
perfidiousness eventually led to the couple's divorce
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Noun
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The source also claimed that there were multiple instances of infidelity.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
8 July 2025 -
Researchers set out to explore why public reactions to celebrity infidelity vary so widely.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
Noun
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The public sees divorce and adultery in different moral terms, largely viewing divorce as morally acceptable in every Gallup question since the organization began asking about it in 2001.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Angela accused her husband of adultery, according to court filings obtained by The Texas Tribune.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
Noun
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This decision is a travesty, a betrayal of the many farmers and rural Americans who voted for Trump.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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To witness in real time the writers stray so far from the stories that set us up for adult life can feel like a kind of betrayal.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Their perfidy is memorialized in the English language, though.—
Evan Osnos,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The prior month, Vice President JD Vance had lodged his own complaints about Europe’s alleged perfidy, threatening that the United States might withdraw its security guarantees from Europe if the EU continued to aggressively regulate U.S. tech companies.—
ANU BRADFORD,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But those in power refuted these links and instead emphasized the disloyalty and illegitimacy of disobeying the will of the majority.—
Time,
Time,
2 July 2025
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Trump, the most unrelenting figure in American politics, doesn't forgive disloyalty.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Perfidiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfidiousness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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