Faithless
['feɪθlɪs] or ['feθləs]
Definition
(adj.) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; 'the faithless Benedict Arnold'; 'a lying traitorous insurrectionist' .
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Definition
(a.) Not believing; not giving credit.
(a.) Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
(a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.
(a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
(a.) Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unbelieving.[2]. Perfidious, treacherous, false, untruthful, truthless.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that your friends are faithless, denotes that they will hold you in worthy esteem. For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is faithless, signifies a happy marriage.
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Examples
- Graham was at that time a handsome, faithless-looking youth of sixteen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How faithless she had been! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Polly, as she said this, looked rather faithless in her turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was wrong, disobedient, faithless. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What would you feel, if a man were faithless to you? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Shall we tell the lamentations that ensued when Miss Wardle found herself deserted by the faithless Jingle? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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