What's the difference between faithless and unfaithful?

Faithless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not believing; not giving credit.
  • (a.) Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
  • (a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.
  • (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
  • (a.) Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The march of the faithless has also continued with 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the entire population, saying they had no religion at all, a rise of 6.4 million over the decade.
  • (2) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
  • (3) It would be a mistake to imagine that these failures represent faithless or incompetent civil servants.
  • (4) Why aren’t these faithless, pusillanimous people retaliating as they should, by surging towards Ukip with cries of revenge against all Muslims?
  • (5) Teen becomes seventh 'faithless elector' to protest Trump as president-elect Read more “It is not enough unless he is going to sell the businesses,” said Richard Painter, a chief ethics counsel to President George W Bush.
  • (6) Artists including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Massive Attack and Faithless have refused to perform in Israel in response to calls for a cultural boycott.
  • (7) Tabanka is characterized by lassitude, anorexia, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness, anger, a loss of interest in work and other activities and, especially, by a preoccupation with the faithless one.
  • (8) As faithless Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction, wayward Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, or pinstriped Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, he managed to be at once virile and venal, authoritative and shifty, a strutting success story and a signpost to disaster.
  • (9) They've come to expect a certain faithlessness in their heads of state.
  • (10) May 5, 2014 Maxi Jazz of Faithless is a big noise in the Crystal Palace board room, according to Guardian football writer Dominic Fifield.
  • (11) The question is whether Plath was the doomed victim of a cruel and faithless husband, the view upheld by the feminists that have long dominated academe, or a suicidal Yank whose entire life - after her beloved father passed away when she was nine - was a dress rehearsal for death.
  • (12) Causal therapy consists in healing of this faithlessness and inability to trust.

Unfaithful


Definition:

  • (a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
  • (a.) Not possessing faith; infidel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (3) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.
  • (4) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
  • (5) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (6) But she indicated that he was unfaithful, did not make love to her, and was only interested in her money, of which she had very little.
  • (7) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
  • (8) The idea came from Soon-Yi, his wife of 16 years, who told him about the friend of a friend – the wife of a financier who imploded after learning her husband was unfaithful and involved in Ponzi-ish fraud.
  • (9) The relationship between the courts, the press and parliament has been severely shaken over the past week by a froth of injunctions protecting the identity of allegedly unfaithful footballers and other celebrities.
  • (10) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
  • (11) Second, the problem of achieving adequate contrast without the expense of an unfaithful representation of molecular structures is discussed.
  • (12) DETECTIVE BUNK Bunk likes to hit the sauce and is unfaithful to his wife.
  • (13) Ruth Ellis had shot an abusive and unfaithful lover in a fit of jealousy.
  • (14) Either way, she's now being blackmailed by ex-fiance Carl, who has nabbed her mobile phone and wants £30,000 or else Dan gets the truth over a pint of Old Unfaithful.
  • (15) The written plea hints at a desperation amongst detainees: “We are tired of endless and hopeless life of Manus prison … we would like to request you to do us a big favour and let us know if there is no hope or any chance so that we can call an end to our indefinite limbo here because we are tired of living on this unfaithful earth.” The letter is signed “Asylum seekers of Australia held in Manus”.
  • (16) A 39-year-old man suddenly became convinced that his wife had once been unfaithful to him, and soon thereafter he became depressed.
  • (17) For example, the two meals in La Femme Infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife, 1968) pointedly show the shift in the couple's relationship and the child's awareness of it.
  • (18) Women are, once again, relegated to supporting roles as unfaithful wives, hookers and weirdos.
  • (19) "Leaving aside him beating up his wife or being unfaithful, this is a guy with a profound sadness in him.
  • (20) According to Islamic teaching in the area, mental disorders are caused by evil spirits sent by God to punish the unfaithful people.