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Swear this to me, for I fear thy treachery: indeed it hath become a common saw, ‘Where Perfidy is innate there Trust is a weakly mate.’
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American writer and Irgun supporter Ben Hecht wrote a play called "Perfidy," critical of Kastner and those who would negotiate rather than resist.
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"'Perfidy' is the only word to describe the attitude of all British parties towards the H-Block hunger strikers ...
1981 Hunger Strikes 1981
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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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Whatever devalued paper remained, Morris said, would be worthless to those who held it and a bane to those who received it—“a monument of national Perfidy.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Perfidy is the only possible motivation for advocating such a policy.
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Perfidy and incompetence are not mutually exclusive.
Boehner: GOP Policies Are Politically Harder, Dems Offer Free Lunch 2010
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Perfidy or incompetence seems to be the only two choices for their behavior, and certainly neither option is good in a bunch of people who (supposedly) want to run the government.
Boehner: GOP Policies Are Politically Harder, Dems Offer Free Lunch 2010
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Whatever devalued paper remained, Morris said, would be worthless to those who held it and a bane to those who received it—“a monument of national Perfidy.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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PS for the semantically challenged: Dictionary definition of Perfidy: treachery
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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