What's the difference between disloyal and traitor?

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.

Traitor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
  • (n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
  • (a.) Traitorous.
  • (v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
  • (2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
  • (3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
  • (4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
  • (5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
  • (6) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
  • (7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
  • (8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
  • (9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
  • (10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
  • (11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
  • (12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
  • (13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
  • (14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
  • (15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
  • (16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
  • (17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
  • (18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
  • (19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
  • (20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.