Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing or characterized by a lack of loyalty; not loyal. synonym: faithless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not true to one's allegiance; false to one's obligation of loyalty to a sovereign, state, or government; not loyal.
- Not true to one's obligations or engagements; inconstant in duty or in love; faithless; perfidious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an absence of
loyalty ;faithless ,traitorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle
- adjective showing lack of love for your country
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Indeed mamma began to reproach me for what she called my disloyal and treacherous sentiments.
Daisy in the Field Susan Warner 1852
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To single out the Jews as being singularly separate and disloyal from the rest of America is the very soul of anti-Semitism.
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Q If I could follow up on that, doesn't it seem like -- I almost want to use the word disloyal for an official to be told, you can't tell your boss this.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
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Indeed mamma began to reproach me for what she called my disloyal and treacherous sentiments.
Daisy in the Field 1869
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Happily, this wayward and pettish, I will not call it disloyal spirit, has passed away, and most of the "Annexationists" are now heartily ashamed of their conduct.
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James Carville thought it was appropriate to liken Bill Richardson to Judas who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver when he endorsed Barack Obama and reiterated his incongruous biblical analogy on CNN by saying that Richardson was being "disloyal" - not to the country, but to the Clintons.
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She courageously stood up to people who called her disloyal; one male colleague even punched her for suggesting that the U.S. should wait before it killed innocent civilians.
Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D.: After 9/11 And War, Building Paths For Co-Existence Ph.D. Sarah Sayeed 2011
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She courageously stood up to people who called her disloyal; one male colleague even punched her for suggesting that the U.S. should wait before it killed innocent civilians.
Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D.: After 9/11 And War, Building Paths For Co-Existence Ph.D. Sarah Sayeed 2011
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She courageously stood up to people who called her disloyal; one male colleague even punched her for suggesting that the U.S. should wait before it killed innocent civilians.
Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D.: After 9/11 And War, Building Paths For Co-Existence Ph.D. Sarah Sayeed 2011
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There are a number of behaviors that can be classified as disloyal.
Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010
vanishedone commented on the word disloyal
I thought WeirdNet #1 was oddly specific until I saw WeirdNet #2...
January 31, 2009
reesetee commented on the word disloyal
Oddly, though, it doesn't list its trademark generic definition: (n): a human being.
January 31, 2009
dailyword commented on the word disloyal
Jim called Spock this once.
September 3, 2012