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单词 faithless
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Definition of faithless in English:

faithless

adjective ˈfeɪθləsˈfeɪθləs
  • 1Disloyal, especially to a spouse or partner.

    (尤指对配偶或伴侣)不忠实的,不忠诚的;不能信赖的,靠不住的

    her faithless lover

    她那不忠的情人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Vicente Aranda's take on the story is a classical tale of faithless woman, doomed lover and romance gone awry.
    • In a faithless age irony is the only way to take yourself seriously, and the only way to show others that you distrust yourself enough for them to trust you.
    • He stands by his faithless wife and cares for her child as his own.
    • As a teenager, her life was ruined by her faithless lover.
    • ‘Audiences in Sofia are quite faithless and not understanding,’ he said.
    • Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
    • Some of the first written stories deal with the Sumerian Goddess Inanna making a series of sacrifices, including the sacrifice of herself and then that of her faithless lover Dumuzi, in order to attain the wisdom of the Underworld.
    • I never, not for a single moment, doubted how he felt about me, never worried that I'd have my heart broken again by another faithless man I'd foolishly trusted.
    • The season concludes with Puccini's famous Madame Butterfly, a tragedy about a Japanese girl's undying love for her faithless American husband.
    • I have also put worthless, faithless men ahead of my friends because I was so desperate for the validation that only love, or what could pass for it in my mind, could bring me.
    • Roman legend claims that ravens were once as white as swans and roughly the same size, but one day a raven told Apollo that Coronis whom he passionately loved, was faithless.
    • One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
    • The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive.
    • No doubt I shall lose a son by your death but if you give up your faith I shall be called the mother of a deserter and faithless son.
    • And, most important, mothers find the loves of their lives not in their faithless husbands but in their sons - and vice versa.
    • These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.
    • Lavender sang the faithless lover Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, and Chen Hsin-an, who was Suzuki in the same opera, will sing Santuzza this weekend.
    Synonyms
    unfaithful, disloyal, inconstant, false, false-hearted, untrue, adulterous, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, fickle, flighty, untrustworthy, unreliable, undependable, deceitful, deceiving, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-dealing, double-crossing
    informal cheating, two-timing, back-stabbing
    rare double-faced
  • 2Without religious faith.

    无宗教信仰的

    they were ungodly and faithless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not to say that I am someone who is faithless, nor ignorant of other's religious beliefs - on the contrary - it is to say that I chose not to subscribe to any organised religion, but to rather seek out my own spiritual path.
    • God, he said, if you make me a rich man I'll spend all my time and all my wealth converting faithless heathens and praising your name.
    • The problem we have now is that the public expression of our religion - worship in church as a community - no longer feeds the spirit of a generation operating more and more out of a faithless culture.
    • Whenever I tell people that I don't believe in one higher, diving being, they claim that I am faithless, that I don't believe in anything.
    • Having been brought up in a religious household myself, I have an innate sense of admiration for those people who have faith in an increasingly faithless world.
    • Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
    • But her indictment is limitless and encompasses orthodox faith as well as faithless practice.
    Synonyms
    unbelieving, non-believing, irreligious, without religious faith, disbelieving, doubting, sceptical, agnostic, atheistic, non-theistic
    pagan, heathen
    rare nullifidian

Derivatives

  • faithlessly

  • adverb
    • According to others, Theseus faithlessly forsook her in the island, and different motives are given for this act of faithlessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But he behaved faithlessly to his ally; he only paid part of the money which he had promised for the troops.
  • faithlessness

  • noun ˈfeɪθləsnəsˈfeɪθləsnəs
    • The letter stated that her involvement in the resolution ‘demonstrated faithlessness in and disloyalty to the University and exhibited an unwillingness to work for the common good of the University.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The handkerchief is the physical evidence that convinces Othello of his wife's faithlessness.
      • There is, there can be nothing endearing about faithlessness.
      • But Amanda, though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, remains firm in her virtue.
      • And the diseases of conceit are a familiar notion from the biblical tradition that goes along with its partner diseases of hubris, idolatry and faithlessness.

Definition of faithless in US English:

faithless

adjectiveˈfeɪθləsˈfāTHləs
  • 1Disloyal, especially to a spouse or partner; untrustworthy.

    (尤指对配偶或伴侣)不忠实的,不忠诚的;不能信赖的,靠不住的

    her faithless lover

    她那不忠的情人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No doubt I shall lose a son by your death but if you give up your faith I shall be called the mother of a deserter and faithless son.
    • As a teenager, her life was ruined by her faithless lover.
    • I have also put worthless, faithless men ahead of my friends because I was so desperate for the validation that only love, or what could pass for it in my mind, could bring me.
    • Vicente Aranda's take on the story is a classical tale of faithless woman, doomed lover and romance gone awry.
    • I never, not for a single moment, doubted how he felt about me, never worried that I'd have my heart broken again by another faithless man I'd foolishly trusted.
    • ‘Audiences in Sofia are quite faithless and not understanding,’ he said.
    • Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
    • Roman legend claims that ravens were once as white as swans and roughly the same size, but one day a raven told Apollo that Coronis whom he passionately loved, was faithless.
    • One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
    • These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.
    • And, most important, mothers find the loves of their lives not in their faithless husbands but in their sons - and vice versa.
    • Lavender sang the faithless lover Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, and Chen Hsin-an, who was Suzuki in the same opera, will sing Santuzza this weekend.
    • The season concludes with Puccini's famous Madame Butterfly, a tragedy about a Japanese girl's undying love for her faithless American husband.
    • Some of the first written stories deal with the Sumerian Goddess Inanna making a series of sacrifices, including the sacrifice of herself and then that of her faithless lover Dumuzi, in order to attain the wisdom of the Underworld.
    • The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive.
    • In a faithless age irony is the only way to take yourself seriously, and the only way to show others that you distrust yourself enough for them to trust you.
    • He stands by his faithless wife and cares for her child as his own.
    Synonyms
    unfaithful, disloyal, inconstant, false, false-hearted, untrue, adulterous, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, fickle, flighty, untrustworthy, unreliable, undependable, deceitful, deceiving, two-faced, janus-faced, double-dealing, double-crossing
  • 2Without religious faith.

    无宗教信仰的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • God, he said, if you make me a rich man I'll spend all my time and all my wealth converting faithless heathens and praising your name.
    • The problem we have now is that the public expression of our religion - worship in church as a community - no longer feeds the spirit of a generation operating more and more out of a faithless culture.
    • Whenever I tell people that I don't believe in one higher, diving being, they claim that I am faithless, that I don't believe in anything.
    • But her indictment is limitless and encompasses orthodox faith as well as faithless practice.
    • It is not to say that I am someone who is faithless, nor ignorant of other's religious beliefs - on the contrary - it is to say that I chose not to subscribe to any organised religion, but to rather seek out my own spiritual path.
    • Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
    • Having been brought up in a religious household myself, I have an innate sense of admiration for those people who have faith in an increasingly faithless world.
    Synonyms
    unbelieving, non-believing, irreligious, without religious faith, disbelieving, doubting, sceptical, agnostic, atheistic, non-theistic
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