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disloyal /dɪsˈlɔɪ(ə)l /adjective1Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or organization to which one has obligations: she was accused of being disloyal to the government...- These boundaries determine who is in and out, pure and impure, and loyal and disloyal to the group ethos.
- And it is not unpatriotic and not disloyal to dissent with the views of the President, or anyone else for that matter.
- One may just be accused of being negative or even of being unpatriotic and disloyal to one's country.
Synonyms unfaithful, faithless, false, false-hearted, untrue, inconstant, untrustworthy; treacherous, perfidious, traitorous, subversive, seditious, unpatriotic, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-dealing, double-crossing, deceitful; dissident, renegade; adulterous informal back-stabbing, two-timing archaic recreant rare hollow-hearted, double-faced, Punic 1.1(Of a remark or thought) demonstrating a lack of loyalty: disloyal mutterings about his leadership...- But sometimes when political capital is low, really, really low, when your own worshipers begin thinking disloyal thoughts, you have to pull out all the stops.
- I immediately rebuked myself for the disloyal thought.
- Clark tried not to entertain the disloyal thought that that might not be such a bad thing after all.
Derivativesdisloyally /dɪsˈlɔɪəli / adverb ...- ‘I found it boring myself,’ he says, disloyally.
- It was said there that a key factor in determining whether there was a breach of a fiduciary duty is a finding that the fiduciary acted disloyally in placing its interests ahead of the beneficiary's.
- She was also accused of philistinism, particularly because of a remark she made at a private dinner party, disloyally leaked by a fellow guest.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French desloial, from des- (expressing negation) + loial 'loyal'. |