as in traitorous
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
faithless friends who deserted him in his time of need
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Recent Examples of faithless
Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Once lost, now found, Ms. Brady offered the closing prayer as the smell of meatloaf promised lunch for the faithful and faithless alike.
—Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Men are a structuring absence, as they are spoken of as faithless husbands, potential fiancés, feckless sons.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
But, these faithless actors have never changed the outcome of an election.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithless
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Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.—
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That video drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who deemed it traitorous.—
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However, these boat routes can be limited, and buying tickets on-site has historically been unreliable due to shifting timetables.—
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Designed to be compact and portable, HyDee is targeted at outdoor, industrial, and emergency applications, including scenarios where access to the electrical grid is unreliable or nonexistent.—
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Plants that provide winter interest, including sedums, goldenrod, blue false indigo, and ornamental grasses.—
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Today’s teenagers can produce a TikTok video in minutes, but how many of them will learn to analyze the president’s false claim that Tylenol causes autism?—
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Turns out, my husband has been suspicious of my evenings away and is now accusing me of being unfaithful.—
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The actress first turned heads in movies like The World According to Garp (1982) and The Natural (1984), then scared the bejesus out of unfaithful men everywhere with her chilling turn in Fatal Attraction (1987).—
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Snow, ice and freezing temperatures hit parts of Europe on Tuesday, causing treacherous traffic conditions that left at least five people dead in France and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights from one of the continent’s busiest airports.—
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With a combination of rain and snow in the week prior, David Motley, the city’s public relations director, said beach conditions were treacherous.—
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“Faithless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faithless. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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