different between sinful vs perfidious
sinful
English
Etymology
From Middle English sinful, synful, senful, sunful, from Old English synful (“sinful, guilty, wicked, corrupt”), equivalent to sin +? -ful. Cognate with Dutch zondevol (“sinful”), German sündevoll (“sinful”), Danish syndefuld (“sinful”), Swedish syndfull (“sinful”), Icelandic syndfullur (“sinful”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nf?l/
Adjective
sinful (comparative more sinful, superlative most sinful)
- constituting a sin; being morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil
- Antonym: sinless
- (colloquial) decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent)
Derived terms
Translations
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perfidious
English
Etymology
From Latin perfidi?sus (“treacherous”), from perfidia.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /p??f?di.?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??f?di.?s/
Adjective
perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)
- Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. [from late 16th c.]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
- 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, 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, Andrew Lang, 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, Robert Hughes, "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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
Synonyms
- (disloyal): disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful
Derived terms
- perfidiously
- perfidiousness
- unperfidious
Related terms
- perfidy
Translations
Further reading
- Perfidious Albion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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