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infidel

noun as in nonbeliever

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"They told us that the world had become infidel and godless, and only martyrdom would take a person to heaven," he says.

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Popes frequently condemned trade with infidels, but some Italians replied, “Trade should be free and unhindered, even into the gates of Hell.”

He starred in slickly produced government-created videos portraying the Border Patrol as warriors on a divine mission to make the City of Angeles safe from immigrant infidels.

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During the civil war, the Druze were largely unwilling to ally with Assad but were wary of the opposition, which was dominated by hard-line Sunni Islamist groups, some of whom viewed Druze as infidels.

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In his statement read out by his lawyers, Issa al H said: "I killed innocents, not infidels."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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