单词 | faithless |
释义 | faithless (once / 1591 pages) adj Someone who's faithless can't be trusted to be loyal. The faithless advisor to a king might turn out to be a traitor plotting against him. If you're faithless, you're untrustworthy. You might be a faithless government worker, stealing state secrets to sell to an enemy, or a faithless boyfriend, secretly dating other people behind your girlfriend's back. The earliest meaning of faithless was "lacking religious faith," although it came to mean "deceptive" by the middle of the 14th century. Faith comes from the Latin fides, "trust, faith, or belief." WORD FAMILYfaithless: faithlessly, faithlessness+/faith: faithful, faithless, faiths, interfaith/faithful: faithfuler, faithfulest, faithfully, faithfulness, faithfuls, unfaithful/faithfulness: faithfulnesses, faithfulnesss/unfaithful: unfaithfully, unfaithfulness/unfaithfulness: unfaithfulnesses USAGE EXAMPLESBut its decision to count or exclude the votes of some “faithless electors” will set a precedent for future elections. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) There were a record number of faithless electors in Monday’s tally: seven, besting the 208-year-old record of six. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) Looking at the history of faithless electors, modern American history shows that this result is in keeping with precedent. Time(Dec 20, 2016) adj having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor the faithless Benedict Arnold Syn traitorous, treasonable, treasonous, unfaithful disloyal deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle |
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