What's the difference between infidelity and loyalty?

Infidelity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity.
  • (n.) Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.
  • (n.) Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
  • (2) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (3) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
  • (4) Alterations of DNA can be caused by reaction of electrophilic agents with DNA constituents, by increased infidelity of DNA replication, by integration of viral genomes or by recombination events involving integrated proviruses.
  • (5) In 56 cases (10,2%) we found a marker profile consisting of both myeloid and lymphoid characteristics (biphenotypic) leukemia = interlineage infidelity).
  • (6) "Ectopic" marker expression, however, which should not be interpreted as reflecting lineage infidelity, may in some instances explain different clinical courses in AL patients.
  • (7) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
  • (8) This finding supports the concept of lineage fidelity, and suggests that true interlineage infidelity, myeloid to lymphoid, is a rare occurrence in adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
  • (9) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
  • (10) Mysteries remain, however: the people involved in infidelities are still unnamed and the writers have not yet revealed the identity of their 'deep throat'.
  • (11) "Are you an infidel to try and take that from them?
  • (12) Naseri told The Saturday Paper Taliban fighters found his Australian driver’s licence and photos of Australia on his phone, threatening him, “You [are] from an infidel country, we kill you.
  • (13) Research revealed Mandela's infidelities, his love of smart suits, his reluctance to abandon a successful career as a lawyer for the high risks of politics.
  • (14) 1994 Publication of The Prince of Wales, for which author Jonathan Dimbleby is given full access to Prince and his papers and diaries, reveals details of his infidelity and suggestions that Diana was mentally unstable.
  • (15) The association was maintained when the data was stratified by other risk factors, including PE2 and the presence of blasts bearing immunologically-defined markers of more than one differentiation lineage (lineage infidelity).
  • (16) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
  • (17) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
  • (18) Later he told a TV interviewer that he had shown heroic self-restraint in not mentioning Bill Clinton’s past infidelities out of respect for their daughter Chelsea.
  • (19) Whether these cases represent true "lineage infidelity" remains to be answered.
  • (20) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.

Loyalty


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (2) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
  • (3) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
  • (4) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
  • (5) Andy Burnham had been in two minds about whether to serve, but decided party loyalty was his brand, and was attracted to the home secretaryship.
  • (6) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
  • (7) He is respected by staff and, according to one source, commands a high degree of loyalty.
  • (8) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
  • (9) I would like to apologise to them, to thank them for their continued loyalty and to thank colleagues for their commitment during such difficult times," he said.
  • (10) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
  • (11) Peter Jay, who founded TV-am alongside Frost, told BBC News: "On the screen he was a very talented and original performer, but it was his talent off-screen, his quality as a human being, his capacity for friendship and loyalty, that were in my opinion the thing that raised him to quite an exceptional level."
  • (12) Within hours of my announcement, you showed me support and loyalty, which I could only expect to hear when someone would be at the top of their profession.
  • (13) Perrior’s appointment is a sign of May’s emphasis on proven practical skills but, crucially, also on loyalty, given that she is one of several longstanding allies who dropped everything at short notice in June to help with May’s leadership campaign.
  • (14) The insider added that News International is said to be particularly keen to rapidly launch an assault on the Sunday Mirror – one of the biggest beneficiaries of the News of the World's closure – on the basis that the longer it is out of the Sunday market, the more difficult it will be to break readers' loyalty to other titles.
  • (15) Some scams appeal to veterans’ sense of loyalty and patriotism by employing affinity marketing – using military and US related paraphernalia.
  • (16) Brown met many members of his cabinet before they issued their pledges of loyalty, which were offered with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
  • (17) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
  • (18) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
  • (19) They damned television as lowbrow and manipulative, refusing to see that people’s politics were increasingly defined by the media they consumed rather than by loyalty to parties.
  • (20) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."