Vocabulary
Perfidy
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the state of being deceitful and untrustworthy.
Urdu meaning
غداری، غدار،عہد وفاداری کو توڑنے کا عمل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Western perfidy targets friend and foe alike if business interests clash.
- The implementation of the US-backed Israeli plan will not just plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil but it would also be a perfidy perpetrated on the Palestinians.
- The toxicity introduced to vacate the possibility owes much to colonial perfidy.
- So, this wasn`t an acceptance of America`s perfidy so much as it was an appeal for America to not abandon an ally and thus be seen as perfidious which, one imagines, would scare off existing and potential allies.
- In fact, much of the history of our faltering democracy reflects the perfidy of and the mutual suspicion and discord among institutional leaderships.
Synonyms
treachery, duplicity, deceit, perfidiousness, deceitfulness, disloyalty, infidelity
Antonyms
faithfulness, loyalty
Curator example
“it was an example of his perfidy”
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