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UK
/fˈeɪθləs/
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ADJECTIVE
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having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
the faithless Benedict Arnold
a lying traitorous insurrectionist
How To Use faithless In A Sentence
- Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
- Then, in my mid-20s, I underwent a crisis of faithlessness. An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless
- IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
- For everyone knew that Cornwall was the kingdom of Arthur and his faithless wife, Guinevere, and her lover, Lancelot. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- The act closes with a terzetto of great power ( "O! di qual sei tu"), in which both the priestess and Adalgisa furiously denounce the faithless Pollione. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
- But her indictment is limitless and encompasses orthodox faith as well as faithless practice.
- Vicente Aranda's take on the story is a classical tale of faithless woman, doomed lover and romance gone awry.
- How she must hate looking more like her faithless aunt than her sainted mother. FLIGHT LESSONS
- Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
- These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.