perfidiously

1. 1.

   in a perfidious manner

   “he was playing perfidiously one side against the other”

Questions about perfidiously

What does perfidiously mean?

perfidiously means "in a perfidious manner".

How many syllables are in perfidiously?

perfidiously has 5 syllables and divides as per-fi-di-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is perfidiously a common word?

perfidiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.