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
Consumed by rage and betrayal, Eleanor is driven to take a bloody, supernatural revenge upon her faithless husband.
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Robert Lang,
Deadline,
27 Dec. 2025
Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
Men are a structuring absence, as they are spoken of as faithless husbands, potential fiancés, feckless sons.
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John Bleasdale,
Variety,
21 Nov. 2024
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,
7 July 2021
See All Example Sentences for faithless
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
27 Dec. 2025
Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead.
—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
Men are a structuring absence, as they are spoken of as faithless husbands, potential fiancés, feckless sons.
—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
21 Nov. 2024
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.
—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithless
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And at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.
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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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Employees quickly abandon systems that are slow, unreliable or difficult to use.
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But weak charging infrastructure, limited and unreliable electricity supply outside major cities, and high financing costs could constrain widespread adoption on the continent, even as investors race to build out infrastructure.
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The charge alleges a person knowingly defrauded another by using false or misleading information to obtain money, property, credit or a loan.
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Opponents of Amendment 5 have flatly called the advertisement misleading or false.
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Nyong’o also plays Clytemnestra, the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murder.
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In Strangers on a Train, Rogers played Guy's unfaithful wife, whom Bruno offers to kill.
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The infamous cyclops briefly appeared, as well as footage of Odysseus and his men battling the cannibalistic race of giants known as Laestrygonians and navigating around the treacherous whirlpool Charybdis.
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According to the hiking blog, The Hiking HI, the rock bridge can only be traversed at low tide, but can be treacherous either way.
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“Faithless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faithless. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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