What's the difference between disloyal and faithless?

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.

Faithless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not believing; not giving credit.
  • (a.) Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
  • (a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.
  • (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
  • (a.) Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The march of the faithless has also continued with 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the entire population, saying they had no religion at all, a rise of 6.4 million over the decade.
  • (2) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
  • (3) It would be a mistake to imagine that these failures represent faithless or incompetent civil servants.
  • (4) Why aren’t these faithless, pusillanimous people retaliating as they should, by surging towards Ukip with cries of revenge against all Muslims?
  • (5) Teen becomes seventh 'faithless elector' to protest Trump as president-elect Read more “It is not enough unless he is going to sell the businesses,” said Richard Painter, a chief ethics counsel to President George W Bush.
  • (6) Artists including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Massive Attack and Faithless have refused to perform in Israel in response to calls for a cultural boycott.
  • (7) Tabanka is characterized by lassitude, anorexia, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness, anger, a loss of interest in work and other activities and, especially, by a preoccupation with the faithless one.
  • (8) As faithless Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction, wayward Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, or pinstriped Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, he managed to be at once virile and venal, authoritative and shifty, a strutting success story and a signpost to disaster.
  • (9) They've come to expect a certain faithlessness in their heads of state.
  • (10) May 5, 2014 Maxi Jazz of Faithless is a big noise in the Crystal Palace board room, according to Guardian football writer Dominic Fifield.
  • (11) The question is whether Plath was the doomed victim of a cruel and faithless husband, the view upheld by the feminists that have long dominated academe, or a suicidal Yank whose entire life - after her beloved father passed away when she was nine - was a dress rehearsal for death.
  • (12) Causal therapy consists in healing of this faithlessness and inability to trust.