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• s  tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
  the perfidious Judas

• German bishops, aware that Catholic references to "perfidious Jews" encouraged Nazi antiSemitism, strongly support the proposal.
• Though much less offensive than a reference to "perfidious Jews" that Pope John XXIII eliminated in 1962, some Jewish leaders are bound to ask why, after years of growing mutual .
• The Mohammedan world (209,020,000 souls) abruptly changed places last week with the Jewish world (15,630,000) in being hornet-mad at the British Government's "perfidious Palestine.

• punic
• treacherous

News & Articles

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• For trendy Iran youths, 'Death to USA' is so 1979
  In the coffeehouses, some even regard the storming of the embassy and taking of hostages as rash acts that set off decades of self-inflicted economic hardship. TEHRAN — As world powers in Geneva negotiate the future of Iran's nuclear development program, Islamist hard-liners here continue to warn of a deceitful, perfidious West scheming to enfeeble the Islamic Republic.
  Nov. 24, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Angela Merkel in Forbes
  These perfidious murders fill us all with disgust and horror,Merkel said in a statement. "The German military is carrying out an important mission for the reconstruction and stabilization of Afghanistan. It is the goal of the attackers to...
• Eduard Kokoity in AFP
  Violent attacks are underway,South Ossetian rebel leader Eduard Kokoity told Interfax news agency, describing the attack on Tskhinvali as a "perfidious and vile" act by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
• Roland Koch in Deutsche Welle
  Roland Koch, premier of the state of Hesse, called the attack a "perfidious act that we can only view with horror and indignation and most strongly condemn."