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faithless

adjective

  1. insincere/perfidious/disloyal
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.

  1. Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

    "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."

  2. Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
  3. Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)

    Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]

  4. Not observant of promises or covenants.
  5. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
  6. Serving to disappoint or deceive