infidels

noun

plural of infidel
as in dissenters
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 infidels In Arabic the word kafir or kaffir has been used to refer to infidels, or non-believers in Islam. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026 Sunni imams issued fatwas, legal condemnations by Islamic religious leaders, against us infidels. — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026 Al Qaeda and Islamic State generally view Shiites as infidels and consider Iran a mortal enemy. — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026 For those infidels keeping score at home, exactly one year ago today, Carrnac gazed into his crystal ball and presciently predicted both the acquittal of Karen Read and the conviction of Tania Fernandes Anderson. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025 The group follows an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels. — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025 The ideology of the groups appears to categorize anyone not subscribing to their extremist views as infidels, whether Muslims or Christians. — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025 During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death. — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025 War in Syria When the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, Syrian Druze were targeted at times by both the Assad regime, which pressured them to support it, and by Islamist rebel groups that regarded them as infidels. — Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 21 July 2025
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  1. dissenters
  2. dissidents
  3. renegades
  4. unbelievers
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  • Three of the 12 members on the Fed's policymaking board voted in favor of a rate hike, marking the largest number of dissenters casting ballots in the same direction since 2016.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • Felix Feather, economist at Aberdeen, said the increase in dissenters from two to three shows concerns over inflation risks are now spreading within the committee — raising the likelihood of rate hikes if inflation doesn’t ease further.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 30 July 2026
Definition of dissenters
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  • However, the Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran – which laid out a long-term pathway to peace – made no mention of protesters, persecuted dissidents or human rights.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • But Alicia soon begins to suspect that her daughter is one of the children grotesquely stolen from the desaparecidos, dissidents disappeared by the country’s authoritarian junta, and that her husband might be in on the repugnant scheme.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 27 July 2026
Definition of dissidents
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  • In short, this list reminded me that our radicals and renegades are the best thing about this great nation.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • There are Sixties rock bands like the Sonics and the Small Faces, and pioneering hippie renegades like Love or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026
Definition of renegades
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  • An idea could be forming despite unbelievers.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Definition of unbelievers

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