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Unfailing vs Trusty - What's the difference?

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Unfailing is a related term of trusty.


As adjectives the difference between unfailing and trusty

is that unfailing is inexhaustible while trusty is reliable or trustworthy.

As a noun trusty is

a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.

unfailing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • inexhaustible
  • changeless
  • infallible

    • trusty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Reliable or trustworthy.

    • Noun

    (trusties)
  • A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
  • * 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
    • We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
  • *1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
  • *:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.