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Meanings of faithlessness in anglès

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inconstància

Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous.

        inconstància

        The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed.

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              Examples for "fickleness"
              Examples for "fickleness"
              1
              No contemporary politician is more attuned to the fickleness of public opinion.
              The Irish Times
              2
              The cause is her utter fickleness; but she never really loved him.
              Put Yourself in His Place
              3
              We are made provident and sagacious by the fickleness of our climate.
              The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
              4
              Yet in her, too, was a passionate loyalty that made fickleness impossible.
              Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
              5
              With typical human fickleness, they jumped from one extreme to the other.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
              1
              I should ask you to think of inconstancy and give you examples.
              East of eden
              2
              He knows the prejudices of faction, and the inconstancy of the multitude.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
              3
              Oliver is seen alternately courting France and Spain, constant only in inconstancy.
              Historical Essays
              4
              Acted as a screen for villainy and inconstancy for the most part.
              Broken to the Plow / A Novel
              5
              This constancy is merely inconstancy fixed, and limited to the same person.
              Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
              1
              To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love.
              Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
              2
              There is no preternatural inefficacy in it by reason of its falseness.
              Friends in Council — First Series
              3
              Who are the critics of the falseness of artifice in the Play?
              Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
              4
              We dread still more to show falseness in taste than in mind.
              Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
              5
              Ballast of falseness, they're useful for nothing but to render us useless.
              The book of disquiet
              Usage of faithlessness in anglès
              1
              Her conduct would be seen as betrayal and faithlessness to Megan's rule.
              The last page
              2
              And that, while in faithlessness, we should thus misjudge it, is well.
              Miracles of Our Lord
              3
              But Shakespeare makes her attempt at justification a confession of absolute faithlessness:
              The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
              4
              The faithlessness of his wife, and not madness, drove him into exile.
              The Port of Missing Men
              5
              Yet he had evidently seen enough to satisfy himself of her faithlessness.
              From Sand Hill to Pine
              6
              The really culpable point-his faithlessness to Mrs. Wilcox-neverseemed to strike him.
              Howards End
              7
              Shall I always close with my faithlessness the way to Thy providence?
              Letters of Catherine Benincasa
              8
              That which made his agony most poignant was this woman's continued faithlessness.
              Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
              9
              So they may be-allbut one, whose birth marked her for faithlessness.'
              Veranilda
              10
              Among other things, Fu Chien's southern campaign was wrecked by that faithlessness.
              A History of China
              11
              It is indeed faithlessness to deceive a wretched man, a tender lover!
              Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
              12
              What apology of Lauzun's, or Bussy Rabutin's for faithlessness could equal this?-
              Letters on Literature
              13
              Our faithlessness limits His power; our faith is the measure of our capacity.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
              14
              In the last act, however, Eric appears and reproaches Senta with her faithlessness.
              The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
              15
              Their hearts were filled with faithlessness and rage, the mighty passions of men.
              Codex Junius 11
              16
              To see broken threads, you will suffer loss through the faithlessness of friends.
              Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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