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Perfidious vs Spurious - What's the difference?

perfidious | spurious |

As adjectives the difference between perfidious and spurious

is that perfidious is of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance while spurious is false, not authentic, not genuine.

perfidious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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:
    • The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
  • * 1905 , , John Knox and the Reformation , ch. 14:
    • [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
  • * 2005 June 21, , " 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, unfaithful

    Derived terms

    * perfidiously * perfidiousness

    Related terms

    * perfidy

    spurious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • false, not authentic, not genuine
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
  • (archaic) bastardly, illegitimate
  • * Milton
    • her spurious firstborn

    Synonyms

    * (false) counterfeit, fake, false, bogus * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * (false) genuine, representative

    Derived terms

    * spuriously * spuriousness