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faithless

Word definitions for faithless in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: traitorous , unfaithful ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Faithless is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film about a spoiled socialite who learns a sharp lesson when she loses all her money during the Great Depression . The film stars Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery , and was based on Mildred Cram ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "unbelieving," from faith + -less . Meaning "insincere, deceptive" is mid-14c. Related: Faithlessly ; faithlessness .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faithless \Faith"less\, a. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. --John xx. 27. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. --Shak. Not observant of promises or covenants. Not true ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Lacking faith; lacking belief in something. 2 Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology. 3 unfaithful; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. 4 Not observant of promises or covenants. 5 Not true to allegiance, duty, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a faithless husband EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Moses is caught between two fires as it were: a faithless people and a vengeful Lord. ▪ Not to mention the fact that he has been conspicuously faithless to me. ▪ The despairing, ...

Usage examples of faithless.

Sally, who with her two small daughters was staying with Nabby, Adams learned for the first time that Charles, who had disappeared, was bankrupt, faithless, and an alcoholic.

Sangiban, the faithless king of the Alani, was placed in the centre, where his motions might be strictly watched, and that the treachery might be instantly punished.

The husband came home one night to find the faithless pair in flagrante delicto on the bed.

The heroine sang a lovely song of loss and longing, meditating on her faithless lover, and it was difficult to imagine how any lout, no matter how louty, could be faithless to such a desirable creature.

A war awaits them far to the norththe faithless city of Capustan must be rewarded.

True, droids tended to be essentially faithless, with no ethical or racial structure.

She asked if I should send the portrait to the husband, or whether it would not be more generous to return it to the faithless Manon.

Accusations were almost never checked by the Day Oners and denunciation became a formidable weapon to be used against rivals, enemies, faithless lovers, errant husbands, rich elderly relatives and just about anyone whom anyone else wanted out of the way.

I went to my desk and wrote and tore up a score of letters in which I overwhelmed the faithless one with threats and reproaches.

All the letters of the faithless Manon Baletti to me, with mine to her, were together on my table.

He was Baletti, brother of my faithless one, a young man of great talent of whom I was very fond.

But the faithless Chozar was soon tempted by the gold of Constantinople: and had not the design been revealed by the conjugal love of Theodora, her husband must have been assassinated or betrayed into the power of his enemies.

But most of all when thou blamest a man as faithless or ungrateful, turn to thyself.

Today it is illegal even to possess one in the Seychelles, but they are handed down in the families for use on faithless wives, and if the word goes round that this or that womana eu la crapule , the Proven‡al name for the sting ray, it is as good as saying that that woman will not be about again for at least a week.

Today it is illegal even to possess one in the Seychelles, but they are handed down in the families for use on faithless wives, and if the word goes round that this or that woman a eu la crapule, the Provenal name for the sting ray, it is as good as saying that that woman will not be about again for at least a week.