infidel

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 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 Many of Hazimi’s former followers, for instance, have declared him and his followers infidels and now adhere to the teachings of a figure named Hilmi Hashimi. Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017 See All Example Sentences for infidel
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Noun
  • What’s safe for Jews was itself a matter of disagreement among the bill’s backers and dissenters.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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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  • 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
  • Skarsgård has long been a red carpet renegade, showing flashes of that playful freak that lives within.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 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
  • An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.
    Scott Shapiro, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
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  • Also not fitting the West’s preconceptions was the fact that most Soviet dissidents didn’t reject socialism.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The festival also falls during the seventh anniversary of the assassination of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, which a US intelligence report says happened at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
    Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Infidel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infidel. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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