(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.
Disloyalty
Definition:
(n.) Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(2) But those MPs who have missed no opportunity to tweet and brief against the party’s elected leader over the last 10 months will find that their disloyalty finds no favour with party members and will make this an increasingly difficult line to hold.” He also warned that if MPs tried to block Corbyn from standing again in the face of a leadership challenge it could “split the party”.
(3) The expression of inconvenient truths will be confused with disloyalty.
(4) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
(5) On 7 May 2013, towards the end of a disappointing season for Madrid, Mourinho arrived alone at the Sheraton Madrid Mirasierra to prepare for a league game against Malaga, having refused to travel with his players after accusing them of disloyalty.
(6) Even to the end he was being watched like a hawk, his every move and utterance scrutinised for disloyalty or plotting or insurrection, the shock jocks attacking him and blaming him for everything (on Tuesday Ray Hadley said he was up himself because of the way he wears his shirt).
(7) Some colleagues interpret Mr Hammond's recent and uncharacteristically dramatic displays of disloyalty as displacement for his fury about the size of the cuts being asked for by the Treasury.
(8) 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.
(9) Clarke described the loyalty senior Labour figures have shown to Brown as "staggering, given his disloyalty to Tony".
(10) And then the MS-18 went after Lucia because they believe that families breed disloyalty.
(11) She hasn’t spoken to Farage since he suspended her for six months for “disloyalty” in the spring, and it’s been 18 months since she talked to Arron Banks, the party’s most high-profile donor.
(12) In a speech on Monday, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said at least 250 people had lost their citizenship in Bahrain in recent years “because of their alleged disloyalty to the interests of the kingdom”.
(13) Even in business circles, a departure would be controversial: Andrew Witty of GlaxoSmithKline said recently that the disloyalty of businesses that regard themselves as "mid-Atlantic floating entities" dangerously erodes public trust in big corporations .
(14) Mosley was in fact expelled for his “act of gross disloyalty” in setting up the New Party.
(15) Armed intervention was publicly ruled out from the beginning because Wilson privately feared disloyalty among the British military.
(16) In a speech in June, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said at least 250 people had lost their citizenship in Bahrain in recent years “because of their alleged disloyalty to the interests of the kingdom”.
(17) But those MPs who have missed no opportunity to tweet and brief against the party’s elected leader over the last 10 months will find that their disloyalty finds no favour with party members and will make this an increasingly difficult line to hold.
(18) Explaining his position, Cable chose his words carefully, while stressing there was "no disloyalty whatsoever".
(19) Victorian Labor has taken steps to expel Martin Ferguson for disloyalty to the party during the NSW state election.
(20) The leader’s team would not confirm any hirings or firings, but Dugher revealed on Twitter that he had been sacked by telephone because of his public disloyalty.