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perfidious adjective [ pəˈfɪdɪəs ]

• deceitful and untrustworthy.
• "a perfidious lover"
Similar: treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous, treasonous, false, untrue, double-dealing, dishonest, two-faced, Janus-faced, untrustworthy, false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic,
Opposite: faithful, loyal,
Origin: late 16th century: from Latin perfidiosus, from perfidia ‘treachery’.


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