Perfidious vs Conspire - What's the difference?
perfidious | conspire |
Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
*:TRINCULO (speaking about ): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
* 1851 , , Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:
* 1905 , , John Knox and the Reformation , ch. 14:
* 2005 June 21, , "
To secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 18
To agree, to concur to one end.
* Roscommon
* 1744 , , act 3, scene 5
To try to bring about.
* Bishop Hall
As an adjective perfidious
is of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.As a verb conspire is
.perfidious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
- [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
Art: The Velocipede of Modernism," Time :
- When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.
Synonyms
* (disloyal) disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithfulDerived terms
* perfidiously * perfidiousnessconspire
English
Verb
(conspir)- They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
- The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.
- I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire
- To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.
- Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.