Hypertext Webster Gateway: "perfidious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Perfidious \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.
2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. ``Involved in
this perfidious fraud.'' --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
perfidious
adj : tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character
as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans;
"Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest
and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
[syn: {punic}, {treacherous}]
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