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# perfidious

«perfidious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not to be trusted; breaking promises and betraying people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Not to be trusted; breaking promises and betraying people who trusted you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perfidious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a villain or a pirate who breaks his word and betrays those who trusted him

### examples

- Heracles marched against Augeas for his perfidious conduct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perfidious/#x1)
- The perfidious pirates were bearing down upon the warriors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perfidious/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perfidious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perfidious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.