(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.
Loyal
Definition:
(a.) Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.
(a.) True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(2) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
(3) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(4) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(5) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
(6) By now, some MPs loyal to Corbyn had got wind of a plot to topple him that was more serious than the Hodge and Coffey no-confidence vote, with one claiming there was a Whatsapp messaging conversation among frontbenchers known as the Birthday Group.
(7) After 11.00, it became clear that not a single unit of the armed forces in Santiago had remained loyal to the president.
(8) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(9) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
(10) He fizzes with energy and ideas, and when asked to describe himself, says “loyal, workaholic”.
(11) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(13) Michael loyally accompanied his father back, although he said he had tried to dissuade him many times from returning because he did not want him to die in prison.
(14) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
(15) I don’t want to say they are not loyal French citizens, but there is a feeling being here that they are able to act and live like Jews, unlike in France, where they have rights as individuals but not as a group.” Among those recently choosing to emigrate to Israel, two groups have dominated: young single people under 35 and pensioners over 66.
(16) His friends and contacts reflected the broad span of his interests, from Winston Churchill, whose History of the English-Speaking Peoples Briggs proofread as a young don, to Chairman Mao’s loyal lieutenant Zhou Enlai and J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb.
(17) Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don.
(18) That depends upon print revenue trajectories, but it will happen.” Murdoch said News Corp, by contrast, was loyal to print.
(19) Even if the prospect of David Cameron fighting the corner of once-loyal working-class Labour voters sounds absurd, that's what will surely define tomorrow night's debate: egged on by tomorrow morning's headlines (and get ready for a real peach from the Sun), the moneyed Old Etonian carpeting the son of the manse for his failure to understand the concerns of ordinary folk.
(20) But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandoned due to funding cuts, unqualified – but party-loyal – lecturers, and shoddily built institutions.