Crossword clues for unfaithful
unfaithful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfaithful \Un*faith"ful\, a.
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Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight.
--Pope.His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
--Tennyson. Not possessing faith; infidel. [R.]
--Milton. [1913 Webster] -- Un*faith"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*faith"ful*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not having religious faith 2 Not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful 3 Not honest or upright 4 Of a translation: incorrect 5 adulterous
WordNet
adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover" [ant: faithful]
having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful" [ant: faithful]
deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: faithless, traitorous]
not trustworthy; "an unfaithful reproduction"
Wikipedia
Unfaithful may refer to:
- The act of infidelity
Unfaithful is a 2002 American thriller drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Chad Lowe, Dominic Chianese and Olivier Martinez. It was adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the French film The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle, 1968) by the noted director Claude Chabrol. It tells about a couple living in suburban New York City whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous affair with a stranger she encounters by chance.
Unfaithful grossed $52 million in North America and a total of $119 million worldwide. Despite mixed reviews overall, Lane received much praise for her performance. She won awards for best actress from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.
"Unfaithful" is the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of House. It aired on February 16, 2009.
Unfaithful is a 2009 experimental film written and directed by Claude Pérès.
Unfaithful is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell and written by Eve Unsell and John Van Druten. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Paul Cavanagh, Juliette Compton, Donald Cook and Emily Fitzroy. The film was released on March 14, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
"Unfaithful" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her second studio album A Girl like Me (2006). It was written by Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith with the song's producers StarGate. The song was released by Def Jam Recordings on May 2, 2006, as the second single from the album. "Unfaithful" is a pop and R&B ballad and was inspired by the works of American rock band Evanescence. Originally titled "Murderer", the single speaks about a woman who regrets cheating on her partner.
"Unfaithful" received mixed to positive reviews from critics; many praised its powerful balladry, but some criticized the lyrics. The song reached the top ten on the singles charts in 19 countries, including the UK Singles Chart, on which it became Rihanna's third top-ten single. "Unfaithful" peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over one million copies.
The song's accompanying music video was directed by Anthony Mandler, and premiered in May 2006. It features Rihanna in a love triangle in which she struggles to choose between her romantic interest and her lover, and regrets having cheated on the former. Since its release, "Unfaithful" has become a staple of Rihanna's live performances. In 2006, she performed it on award ceremonies such as the MOBO Awards and the World Music Awards. The song was on the set list of three of her major tours, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007–09), the Last Girl on Earth Tour (2010–11) and the Loud Tour (2011).
Usage examples of "unfaithful".
Nanette and Marton, who could not imagine the possibility of my being unfaithful to them.
Garp thought of asking Ernie Holm, but he was already fearful that Helen would hear of his being with Cushie Percy, and although he had no real relationship with Helen that he could be unfaithful to, Garp did have his imagination and his plans.
I loved him dearly till I saw this Frenchman, who made me unfaithful to a man I adored.
Ministers: and seeing we can neither with safety to our persons, nor freedom in our consciences, compear before the Judicatories, while these defections are not acknowledged and removed, so we must, so long decline them, and hereby do decline them, as unfaithful judges in such matters: in regard they have, in so great a measure, yielded up the priviledges of the Church into the hands and will of her enemies, and carried on a course of defection contrar to the Scriptures, our Covenants, and the acts and constitutions of this our Church.
So that rainy night, outside the Old Justice pub in Stepney, Mr X waited for Tosher, waited with this knife and, when he saw his unfaithful servant come out of the shadows, he stabbed.
Because, as she told me herself, she wished to ease her conscience, thinking that she was in some measure unfaithful to you.
Viscount Rosser from the table by the scruff of his neck, and give him a good thrashing for being so foolish and unfaithful.
John, but he kept his stern, absent demeanour, as if he could not, or would not, shake off the spell that had come over him, which made him look like a cold, unfaithful, unlifelike copy of himself.
In her neat blue dress with a chaste white collar, she was no-where near as beautiful as Cyl, but there was something wistful in her eyes and I wondered if Ralph had been unfaithful to her before or was Cyl an aberration waiting to happen?
The reign of history begins and, identifying himself only with his history, man, unfaithful to his real rebellion, will henceforth devote himself to the nihilistic revolution of the twentieth century, which denies all forms of morality and desperately attempts to achieve the unity of the human race by means of a ruinous series of crimes and wars.
Amrou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country.
He it is who punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after Number One, to be unfaithful to your wife, to bilk your debts, and so on and so forth.
Nanette and Marton, who could not imagine the possibility of my being unfaithful to them.
He drove the limousine to the church the day she married Hal Oliphant, the unfaithful, drunken unfavorite son of some big family in the East.