Examples of using "Perfide" in a sentence and their english translations:
She is treacherous, like a serpent.
"As for yon shore and that Italian coast, / washed, where the land lies nearest, by our main, / shun them; their cities hold a hostile host. / There Troy's old foes, the evil Argives, reign."
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
"And falteringly the traitor plays his part. / 'Oft, wearied by the war, the Danaans planned / to leave – and oh! had they but left – the land.'"
"Then bade her fly the country, and revealed, / to aid her flight, an old and unknown weight / of gold and silver, in the ground concealed."
"Then first Thymaetes cries aloud, to go / and through the gates the monstrous horse convey / and lodge it in the citadel. E'en so / his fraud or Troy's dark fates were working for our woe."
True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, / slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, / begins the lost Sychaeus to efface, / and living passion to a breast impart / long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.
"But when, through sly Ulysses' envious hate, / he left the light – alas! the tale ye know –, / stricken, I mused indignant on his fate, / and dragged my days in solitude and woe."
"Then he, at length his show of fear laid by, / 'Great King, all truly will I own, whate'er / the issue, nor my Argive race deny. / This first; if fortune, spiteful and unfair, / hath made poor Sinon wretched, fortune ne'er / shall make me false or faithless.'"
His arts gave credence, and forced tears withal / snared us, whom Diomede, nor Achilles dire, / nor thousand ships subdued, nor ten years' war could tire.
By agreeing to integrate the "Tamazight language" into its educational system, the perfidious and calculating Algerian state wants to annihilate the Kabyle language by creating a diglossia which will in turn create serious learning problems and cross-comprehension issues. Because this "Tamazight language" is full of neologisms, in addition to being an absurd mixture of several Berber languages, that often have no meaning and has no connection with the sociolinguistic reality for all Berbers. In the end, they all lose out.