PERFIDY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An act of deliberate betrayal

Synonyms:

betrayal; perfidy; treachery; treason

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("perfidy" is a kind of...):

dishonesty; knavery (lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfidy"):

sellout (a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.)

Derivation:

perfidious (tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans)

Meaning:

Betrayal of a trust

Synonyms:

perfidiousness; perfidy; treachery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("perfidy" is a kind of...):

disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfidy"):

insidiousness (the quality of being designed to entrap)

Derivation:

perfidious (tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans)