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faithful

If someone or something is faithful, they are loyal to a person or cause. My dog follows me everywhere I go. He is very faithful. If someone is faithful, they have faith in something. People who go to church are faithful to their God. If something is faithful, it is close to something real. That painting is a very faithful copy of the Mona Lisa. If someone is faithful, they have only had sex with their partner; they have not had sex with other people. They have been faithful to each other since they got married.

faithful

steadfast in affection or allegiance years of faithful service faithful employees we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor any loyal and steadfast following (= close) marked by fidelity to an original a close translation a faithful copy of the portrait a faithful rendering of the observed facts not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend he remained faithful to his wife (= congregation) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

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Simple sentences

The dog is the most faithful animal.
The slowest one to make a promise is the most faithful one in keeping it.
All dogs are faithful.
A dog is a faithful animal.
She was faithful to her promise.
Dogs are faithful animals.
We consider now pairwise non-isomorphic factor modules of this faithful module.
Dogs are faithful.
In the distance I hear a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.
I'm faithful to my wife.
Tom is faithful to Mary.
My dog is very faithful.
Until my coffin closes I will be your faithful spouse.
Tom is faithful.
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Because dogs are more faithful than cats.
The dog is a faithful animal.
I like a dog better than a cat, for the former is more faithful than the latter.
I like dogs better than cats, because the former are more faithful than the latter.
The statue of Hachiko, the faithful dog, stands in front of Shibuya Station.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Movie subtitles

And I will wait faithfully for you until you have paid for your misdeeds, as I have always been faithful to you.
I'm faithful to you, Master!
Master! I've always been faithful!
And you shall find in me a faithful, loyal and loving woman.
Down the path of the moon. the noble animal, plunging and frothing at the nostrils. till it founders at your feet, faithful unto death.
Adolf Hitler flew again to Nuremberg to review his faithful followers.
Because you embody the concept of fidelity for us. therefore we wish to be faithful.
And so I greet you as my old, faithful SA and SS men.!
I've been so faithful to my love for you.
You're no more to blame because yours can be faithful only a few weeks than I am because mine will be faithful as long as I live.
She's as pure as the driven snow, as faithful as she is fair.
And there, my faithful Huntsman, you will kill her!
Mr. Wilkes, who can't be mentally faithful to his wife. and won't be unfaithful to her technically.
On behalf of my master, Emir Abd el-Kader, prince of the faithful, defender of the Prophet's religion, welcome.
He's the prince of the faithful.
I'm happy that French science could serve the mother of the prince of the faithful.
He asked to join the army of the faithful.
Germaine, do you take Gustave to be your husband, to be faithful unto him and be part of the Church?
Gustave, do you take Germaine to be your wife, to be faithful unto her and be part of the Church?
I, Abd el-Kader, son of Muhyi el-Din, combatant for Islam, the prince of the faithful and servant of Muslims, have waited for the time chosen by God.
I love you, Harry. And I will wait faithfully for you until you have paid for your misdeeds, as I have always been faithful to you.
I've always been faithful!
The early scripts were quite faithful to Wylie's novel, except that Garrett Fort modified the invisible cholera to invisible rats carrying bubonic plague.
Always to be honest and truthful; to be a faithful wife and a loyal subject of your new country.
I'll always be faithful to him.
Oh, he was a good and faithful man.
Even though I know you've been faithful to me all along.
I'm just his faithful old dog, Tray.
Poor, faithful Frank.
The faithful employee.
Think of me always, darling, as old faithful, waiting to console a lonely wife when her husband hears the clarion call of adventure.
They, fine Cossacks, faithful Ukrainian sons, were bludgeoned to death on the wheel and had their veins pulled out from them while alive at the Warsaw square!
Yeah, pine logs and curling flames, a faithful dog, nice white bearskin rug, a little woman to fetch your slippers.
The faithful city has become a whore!

News and current affairs

It is a fascinating story about the conflict between ideals and reality, or Utopia and humanness; about being faithful to a cause and betraying it; and about sacrifice and solidarity.
As UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it, the problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful.
The Arab revolutions mark the emergence of a pluralist, post-Islamist banner for the faithful.
So there was a vacuum to fill, accompanied by a strong desire among the party faithful for revival.
Dubious claims by faithful activists gave rise to the biofuels industry (with supporting lobbyists).
She feels that, in acting as she did, she was faithful to her most cherished values and beliefs.
Being truthful and faithful to what is the bedrock of Church teaching cannot be deemed conservative.
History had written a different role for us - sovereign, independent, detached from continental entanglements, and, if not an equal of America, then at least a senior, faithful adjutant.
They were faithful until the end and were killed for it.
In this hideous century of ours, only beggars and faithful people pass through in the end.
Historical revisionism was near the top of the agenda, with the United States portrayed as Israel's most faithful supporter and ally since 1948.
Most religions embrace and promote certain notions about the meaning of life, offering the faithful reasons why we and all other organisms exist.
So life, at long last, has a higher meaning in the eyes of science - even if serving the second law of thermodynamics is not exactly what the religiously faithful had in mind.
The goal today must be to modernize each tradition, while remaining faithful to its roots.
Such a reform would remain faithful to the principles of justice that underlie the concept of universal jurisdiction.
But, just when America's Sino-centric Asia policy became noticeable, Japan put the US on notice that it cannot indefinitely remain a faithful servant of American policies.
If European countries want to remain faithful to their embrace of universal and equal human rights and avoid any temptation or slide towards racism and xenophobia, all Europeans must act.
The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.
Bronek, you were faithful.
Even in Morocco, a king with absolute power as Commander of the Faithful has been forced by intense public outrage to move toward a system more inclusive of political Islam.
If that is true, why target the only country in the region that was founded on those values, and that has continued, for better or worse - and despite a nearly 70-year state of war with its neighbors - to be broadly faithful to them?
Such a role would better protect Europe's broader interests in the Middle East, while allowing it to remain faithful to its values.

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