Definizione monolingua

perfidious

perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command ones fidelity or allegiance.
   • 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Goldsmiths History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:

     The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthemius, and raised the standard of revolt.

   • 1905, Andrew Lang, John Knox and the Reformation, ch. 14:

     [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.

   • 2005 June 21, Robert Hughes, ""Art: The Velocipede of Modernism,"" Time:

     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 Feiningers life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.

Definizione dizionario perfidious

perfido

perverso

sleale

Altri significati:

pertaining to perfidy

Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.