Perfidious vs Dishonest - What's the difference?
perfidious | dishonest | Related terms |
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, , "
Not honest.
Interfering with honesty.
(obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
* Alexander Pope
* Sir T. North
(obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
* Dryden
Perfidious is a related term of dishonest.
As adjectives the difference between perfidious and dishonest
is that perfidious is of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance while dishonest is not honest.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 * perfidiousnessdishonest
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
- Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
