as in dissenter
disapproving
a person who does not believe in a religion that someone regards as the true religion
The theocracy regarded as infidels anyone that did not practice their religion.
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Recent Examples of infidel
Crowds of armed men thronged the streets in several Syrian cities, chanting for the blood of infidels.
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
But the belief is part of the reason that the Druze have been branded by Islamic militants as infidels.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 6 May 2025
The rhetoric of declaring others infidels, marginalization, and violence continues.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Nov. 2024
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
But the belief is part of the reason that the Druze have been branded by Islamic militants as infidels.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 6 May 2025
The rhetoric of declaring others infidels, marginalization, and violence continues.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infidel
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What’s safe for Jews was itself a matter of disagreement among the bill’s backers and dissenters.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Paso Robles is independent, even a bit renegade.—
Justin Goldman,
AFAR Media,
24 Oct. 2025
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For years, Hollywood content creators have warned about piracy, whether through bootleg VHS tapes, or BitTorrent, or renegade streaming providers.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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Peppering dashes of humor into its brew of foreboding, the movie views the rise of an authoritarian movement through its effect on a family of unbelievers, covering a five-year period that begins in celebration and ends somewhere very different.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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No one ever converted an unbeliever with harshness, condemnation, and threats of hell.—
Sophia A. Nelson,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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So, in a similar way, the actions and the philosophy of the great Eastern European dissidents’ trial might become a lesson to us.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Infidel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infidel. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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