N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, discredit,
miscreance,
infidelity, dissent, change of opinion, retraction, doubt,
skepticism,
scepticism, misgiving,
demure, distrust, mistrust,
cynicism, misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy,
scruple,
qualm, onus probandi,
incredibility,
incredibleness,
incredulity, doubter,
skeptic,
cynic, unbeliever
V. disbelieve, discredit, not believe, misbelieve, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, doubt, be doubtful, doubt the truth of, be skeptical as to, diffide|, distrust, mistrust,
suspect, smoke,
scent, smell a rat, have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions, have one's doubts,
demure, stick at,
pause,
hesitate,
scruple, stop to consider, waver, hang in suspense, hang in doubt, throw doubt upon, raise a question, bring in, call in question, question,
challenge, dispute, deny,
cavil, cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion, ergotize,
startle,
stagger, shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief
Adj. unbelieving,
skeptical,
sceptical, incredulous as to, skeptical as to, distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of, doubting, doubtful, disputable, unworthy of, undeserving of belief, questionable,
suspect,
suspicious, open to suspicion, open to doubt,
staggering, hard to believe,
incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable, impossible, fallible,
undemonstrable,
controvertible Adv. cum grano salis, with grains of allowance
Phr. fronti nulla fides, nimium ne crede colori, "timeo danaos et dona ferentes", beware of greeks bearing gifts, credat judaeus apella, let those believe who may, ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio
N. improbity,
dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace,
fraud, lying, bad faith, punic faith, mala fides, punica fides,
infidelity,
faithlessness, judas kiss,
betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason,
apostasy,
nonobservance,
shabbiness,
villainy,
villany, baseness,
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude, moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling,
perfidy,
perfidiousness,
treachery,
double dealing, unfairness,
knavery,
roguery,
rascality, foul play,
jobbing,
jobbery,
graft,
bribery,
venality,
nepotism, corruption, job,
shuffle, fishy transaction,
barratry, sharp practice, heads i win tails you lose, mouth honor
V. be dishonest, play false, break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise,
jilt,
betray,
forswear,
shuffle, live by one's wits, sail near the wind, disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself,
derogate,
stoop,
grovel,
sneak, lose caste, sell oneself, go over to the enemy, seal one's infamy
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious,
unscrupulous,
fraudulent,
knavish, disgraceful, wicked,
false-hearted,
disingenuous, unfair,
one-sided, double, double- hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced,
timeserving,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
machiavelian, dark,
slippery,
fishy,
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured, infamous,
arrant, foul, base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable,
abject, mean,
shabby, little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging, beneath one,
low-minded,
low-thoughted,
base-minded,
undignified, indign|, unbecoming,
unbeseeming,
unbefitting,
derogatory,
degrading, infra dignitatem, ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome,
recreant, inglorious, corrupt,
venal,
debased,
mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful,
disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless,
trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor,
barratrous Adv. dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges
Int. o tempora, o mores, [Cicero]
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness,
ungodliness,
laxity,
quietism,
skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief,
incredulity,
incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief,
pyrrhonism,
bout,
agnosticism,
atheism,
deism,
hylotheism,
materialism,
positivism,
nihilism,
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity,
rationalism,
neology,
atheist,
skeptic, unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist,
giaour, heathen,
alien,
gentile,
nazarene, espri fort,
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist,
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question,
dechristianize Adj. irreligious,
indevout,
undevout,
devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy,
unsanctified,
unhallowed,
atheistic, without god,
skeptical,
freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted,
incredulous, faithless, lacking faith,
deistical, unchristian,
antichristian, worldly,
mundane, earthly,
carnal, worldly &c. minded
