perfidious

perfidious

1. petollinen, kavala

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perfidious

petollinen, kavala.

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Englannin sanakirja

perfidious (englanti > suomi)

1. petollinen

perfidious englanniksi

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

2. 1610, s:The Tempest|The Tempest, by w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

TRINCULO (speaking about w:Caliban Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.

3. 1851, w:Oliver Goldsmith|Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Goldsmiths History of Rome'' (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:

The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.

4. 1905, w:Andrew Lang|Andrew Lang, John Knox and the Reformation, ch. 14:

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

5. 2005 June 21, w:Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1075033,00.html 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 Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.

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