faithless

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And yet I know all the time that you are like all the rest of your sex--faithless, unveracious, and He glares at her, but does not proceed ALICE HEMINGWAY.

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  1. adjective Not true to duty or obligation; disloyal.
  2. adjective Having no religious faith.
  3. adjective Unworthy of faith or trust; unreliable.

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  • I don't think I am faithless--indeed I held on to her as long as I could, Richard! —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • Some there were who were faithless, and these began to tell them of their great success; how they had built the temple; how their industry and labor had succeeded; how well they had learned to know themselves. —  The Strange Little Girl A Story for Children
  • She called herself faithless, and said to herself that she did not deserve that it should go well with her husband, since she had ceased to believe in him and trust him; but, sick in body and sick at heart, she had no power, for the time at least, to rally. —  Stephen Grattan's Faith A Canadian Story
  • Oh, if I were not so faithless--so unworthy Still the reading went on, and she listened to the twenty-eighth verse: "For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole Lord, give me that poor woman's faith, that I may trust and be blessed as she was," she entreated, covering her face, that her children might not wonder at seeing her so moved. —  Stephen Grattan's Faith A Canadian Story
  • "I'm faithless, and sore beset myself whiles, but I needna fear for them. —  Janet's Love and Service
 

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