perfide-treacherous: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is perfide?perfide is treacherous

What is treacherous?

  • Qui est sournois, venimeux, fourbe : De perfides allusions.
    That is sneaky, venomous, deceitful: of treacherous allusions.
  • Littéraire. Qui est funeste, dangereux, sous des apparences favorables : Les eaux perfides l'ont englouti.
    Literary. That is disastrous, dangerous, under favorable appearances: the treacherous waters have engulfed him.