Crossword clues for faithless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faithless \Faith"less\, a.
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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.
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Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
A most unnatural and faithless service.
--Shak. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. ``Yonder faithless phantom.''
--Goldsmith. -- Faith"less*ly, adv. Faith"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "unbelieving," from faith + -less. Meaning "insincere, deceptive" is mid-14c. Related: Faithlessly; faithlessness.
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, or vows; perfidious; treacherous; disloyal. 6 Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
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
Faithless are a British electronica band consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. The group is best known for their dance songs (" Salva Mea", " Insomnia", " God Is a DJ" and " We Come 1"). Faithless recorded six studio albums, with total sales exceeding 15 million records worldwide. The band announced it would split up after their Passing The Baton dates at Brixton Academy on 7 and 8 April 2011. However, in February 2015 they reunited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band.
Faithless is a Swedish film directed by Liv Ullman from a script by Ingmar Bergman. The story is loosely based on experiences of adultery from Bergman's own life. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
__NOTOC__ Faithless is a live album by Richard Thompson. Released in 2004 on Thompson's own Beeswing label, it is compiled from recordings made during Thompson's 1985 tour in support of his Across A Crowded Room album, and subsequently features 6 of the 9 songs from that album.
The backing band for 1985 tour included the duo of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister whose vocals had been a feature of Across A Crowded Room. The band lineup for this tour placed most of the burden for instrument colour on Thompson and his guitar playing, but Gregson trades solos with Thompson on "Tear Stained Letter".
Faithless is a British electronica band.
Faithless may also refer to:
- the quality of Faithlessness
- The MiG-23, a Russian Federation fighter aircraft
- Faithless (novel), by Karin Slaughter
- Faithless (1932 film), starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery
- Faithless (2000 film), a Swedish film directed by Liv Ullmann
- The Faithless, the debut 2006 album by Nights Like These
- Faithless (album), a 2004 live album by Richard Thompson
- Faithless (Marianne Faithfull album), a 1977 album by Marianne Faithfull
- "Faithless", a song by Rush from Snakes & Arrows
Faithless is the fifth novel in the Grant County, Georgia series by author Karin Slaughter. It was originally published in hardback in 2005. It was a #1 The Times bestseller. Previous books in the series are Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, and Indelible. These books star Sara Linton, Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams.
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's novel Tinfoil, which was the film's working title.
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.