Perfidy
Word of the day: Perfidy
Context: The president clearly meant that Comey had been falsely depicting him as complicit in Russia's perfidy, but Democrats pounced, spinning Trup's statemetn as admission that Comey ....
Source: National Review; April, 22, 2019; p 19.
Perfidy: per·fi·dy [ˈpərfədē] NOUN literary deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
Comment: This is pretty easy to figure out, or at least approximate, from the context but when asking myself if I could define the word if not in context, I could not.
Context: The president clearly meant that Comey had been falsely depicting him as complicit in Russia's perfidy, but Democrats pounced, spinning Trup's statemetn as admission that Comey ....
Source: National Review; April, 22, 2019; p 19.
Perfidy: per·fi·dy [ˈpərfədē] NOUN literary deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
Comment: This is pretty easy to figure out, or at least approximate, from the context but when asking myself if I could define the word if not in context, I could not.
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