(v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
(v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
(v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
(v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
(v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
(v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
(v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
(2) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
(3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
(4) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
(5) It is a betrayal that will see thousands of young people decide that they cannot risk the debt that going to university would load them with.
(6) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(7) Tories, for their part, claim that Lib Dems are betraying a promise to vote for the boundary review in return for being able to hold a national referendum on introducing a new alternative vote system last year.
(8) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
(9) You’re betraying the working class of Britain they tell me.
(10) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
(11) This is a man who has betrayed his country,” Kerry told CBS News .
(12) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(13) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
(14) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(15) So maybe tiki-taka hasn't died, but Spain betrayed it by trying to play with a recognized striker, and then with whatever the hell Fernando Torres is."
(16) By the most generous standards it is a serious lapse if not a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations.
(17) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(18) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
(19) But she raised concerns that parents' fears over costs betray a lack of understanding of grants and loans available to students from less affluent homes, suggesting more should be done to explain all the options.
(20) For all the bad blood of the past year, for all the talk of betrayal, there remains the kernel of a progressive consensus.
Disloyal
Definition:
(a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is nothing more disloyal to the left than not saying uncomfortable things that have to be confronted if it is going to succeed.
(2) It is believed that the investigatory arm of the ethics committee has recommended bans of more than six years for Blatter and Platini, with the former accused of having made a “disloyal” payment of £1.35m to the latter in 2011 .
(3) Only the disloyal take offence, thereby proving how much we need the oath.
(4) It is disloyal to the party he claims to represent."
(5) He is also alleged to have made a “disloyal payment” of £1.3m to Platini, against the interests of Fifa, in 2011.
(6) I’m not having more sex, but I am less nervous about sex and am enjoying it without in the back of my mind thinking, “This could kill me.” I’ve lost friends to HIV, and it feels sometimes disloyal to their memories to not be 100% condom compliant, but I don’t like them.
(7) But instead he was ruled out of the race after being suspended for accepting a £1.35m “disloyal payment” from Sepp Blatter, who was also eventually banned for four years.
(8) We’re not interested in being disloyal; our gut instinct is to be loyal to whoever’s the Labour leader,” says Akehurst.
(9) His strategic errors ensured @andyburnhammp did not become leader January 5, 2016 Cat Smith, a shadow women’s minister, said Corbyn was right to remove disloyal members of his top team.
(10) What better way for the bowibu to prove their fealty and regain the young leader’s favour than the spectacular elimination of his disloyal sibling?
(11) Such attacks on the government could be seen as disloyalty, just as I was disloyal to the UK when I attacked the UK government’s war on Iraq.
(12) Tusk is a Kaszub – a small ethno-linguistic minority centred in parts of north-western Poland historically contested by Poles and Germans; the spokesman was attempting to draw a line backwards from Tusk the Gdańsk liberal to Tusk the disloyal Danzig German.
(13) Tensions surrounding the expected reshuffle were stoked by Labour whip Grahame Morris, who urged Corbyn to sack disloyal shadow ministers.
(14) Trump has also complained that the department store Macy’s was “disloyal” to him back in 2015 because it dropped his clothing line after he called Mexican immigrants rapists and killers, and he enjoys saying that his enemies (eg Clinton and Sanders) are “disloyal” to one another.
(15) "I suppose if one was being terribly disloyal, the whole jubilee is a bit of a distraction," says Starkey.
(16) Blair told Marr he was “not being disloyal” to the current Labour leader and, although he said he was waiting to see what policies Corbyn produced, he added: “I don’t disrespect him as a person, or his views at all.” He also said he would be backing Labour at the general election even if Corbyn remained leader.
(17) A prominent News Corp columnist has attacked the communications minister for being disloyal to the prime minister and the communications minister has subsequently attacked the News Corp columnist for being both generally and specifically unhelpful which has then prompted the News Corp columnist to challenge the communications minister to defend two budget measures entirely outside his portfolio in Question Time – an event which seems unlikely to happen.
(18) The rise and fall of this disloyal companion closely resembles that of Somerset and would seem to indicate Wroth's belief that the King's relationship with the Earl was sexual.
(19) More than two weeks have now passed since Platini was questioned as someone “between a witness and an accused person” under Swiss law over that £1.3m “disloyal payment” – that is, against the interests of Fifa – from Blatter.
(20) In comments on Wednesday, Huckabee warned that appointments of disloyal Republicans could prove to be a distraction to Trump.