The naivete of this approach is matched only by the perfidiousness of its execution."

The ruined lives of those who spied for the Soviets are testimony to the perfidiousness of intelligence services everywhere.

The perfidiousness of mixing fibres?

The hawks in our country would seize on the delay as another example of Soviet perfidiousness and turn the intensity of the arms race up a notch.

'the sergeant said hoarsely, obviously deciding such perfidiousness with grenades could be contrived only by someone of such exalted rank.

"Our own good fortune does not blind me to the perfidiousness of the enemy, nor cause me to admire treason in anyone, even though I profit by it."

Custine was accused of harshness, of unskilfulness, perfidiousness; accused of many things: found guilty, we may say, of one thing, unsuccessfulness.

Such a proposition, should it ever be made, and it has been already more than once hinted at in Parliament, would discover such a disposition to perfidiousness, and such disregard of honor and morals, as would add the finishing vice to national corruption.

The opinion, likewise, which Spain has formed of the British cabinet's character for meanness and perfidiousness, is so exactly the opinion of America respecting it, that the memorial, in this instance, contains our own statements and language; for people, however remote, who think alike, will unavoidably speak alike.

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce."

The just-awake grogginess was still there -she wasn't yet thinking clearly, knew she wouldn't be properly all there until she had had her morning cup of coffee - but still, it came to her: Grahame Coats's perfidiousness, his treachery, his criminality, his . . . Why she thought, he assaulted me.

But even this requires a kind of nostalgic astigmatism and amnesia, for the New Testament church is viewed without flaw or corruption, sin or perfidiousness, and we likewise forget the trouble St Paul was having with Corinth, the bitter wrangles over circumcision, and what the Spirit had to say to the churches.