Crossword clues for unfaithfulness
unfaithfulness
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.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being unfaithful; infidelity; disloyalty.
WordNet
n. the quality of being unfaithful [syn: infidelity] [ant: fidelity, fidelity]
Usage examples of "unfaithfulness".
I took them all, and so delighted was she to touch my five Louis that she came and kissed me, and told the knight that her unfaithfulness to him rested only with me.
Lady Anne, a proud Englishwoman, could have tolerated such blatant proof of unfaithfulness, was beyond Katherine.
Major-general Lord Melville, Sir Henry Hardinge, while he actually eulogised the Sepoy army especially for their loyalty, privately expressed his alarm at the unsafe foundation upon which British power in India rested, in consequence of the secret unfaithfulness of the Sepoy troops!
I took them all, and so delighted was she to touch my five Louis that she came and kissed me, and told the knight that her unfaithfulness to him rested only with me.
There are degrees of neutrality, just as there are degrees of unfaithfulness: one may forgive a woman an occasional cold spell, but not her continued and smiling repose in other men's arms.
Therefore I did not know what to make of it when he seized me one afternoon in the wings of the vaude house, and accused me violently of sexual unfaithfulness to him.