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disloyal

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing lack of love for your country [syn: unpatriotic ] [ant: patriotic ] deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers" [ant: loyal ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Government MPs who voted against the bill were accused of being disloyal . ▪ He didn't want to be disloyal to his employer. ▪ She felt disloyal and ashamed of herself. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Afterwards, the loss of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (implied in disloyally ), from Old French desloial , desleal (Modern French déloyal ) "treacherous, false, deceitful," from des- (see dis- ) + loial (see loyal ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. without loyalty; faithless, traitorous.

Usage examples of disloyal.

CHAPTER 6 STEAL OF EMPIRE Swith vacillated in his support betz,een the Consei-vative anti Libem1pai-ties, equally disloyal to both and trusted by neither.

Page he would make an inquiry, but he did so with distaste, feeling as if he were being disloyal to Lierin by allowing the question to come into his mind.

And whoso, accepting the personal challenge of criticism, carries on the investigation with prejudice and passion, holding errors because he thinks them safe and useful, and rejecting realities because he fancies them dangerous and evil, is an intellectual traitor, disloyal to the sacred laws by which God hedges the holy fields and rules the responsible subjects of the realm of truth.

While she was first flying the little hawks - with a guilty thought that she was being disloyal to her beloved Preciosa - she reached out for contact, the strong bond between hawk and flyer.

The Missouri border was near them on the one side, the Kentucky border on another, and if the Southern Illinoisans had been betrayed, in any degree, into a disloyal course the military operations of the Government in that section would have been greatly embarrassed.

Star-Spangled Banner and constitutional form of government, now so violently assailed by disloyal American citizens, as well as by Marxian rebels from abroad who have deceived many of the uneducated or trained them in ways of evil.

Though it seemed a bit disloyal, Makanee felt this alien ocean had a silkier texture and finer taste than the waters of Earth, the homeworld she had not seen in years.

They lose, besides incurring, so far as disloyal, the pains and penalties of treason, their political rights, or right, as has just been said, to be in their own department self-governing communities, with the right of representation in Congress and the electoral colleges, and to sit in the national convention, or of being counted in the ratification of amendments to the constitution--precisely what it was shown a Territorial people gain by being admitted as a State into the Union.

If, on the other hand, it was Harrod or Komulakov, then the people who were shadowing him were likely countersurveillance or counterintelligence spooks-there to either protect Newman or finger him if he was disloyal.

If they are only a confederation of states--and if they ever were severally sovereign states, only a confederation they certainly are--state secession is an inalienable right, and the government has had no right to make war on the secessionists as rebels, or to treat them, when their military power is broken, as traitors, or disloyal persons.

The woman was brilliant, not crazy: aggressive in defending her own, responsive to danger, but not disloyal to Fleet or Federation, not likely to do anything stupid, like bombing FedCentral.

These were the disenchanted, the disloyal — soldiers who had been passed over for promotion or, more disturbingly, had been too impatient to work their way up the hierarchy.

When Babson got through charging a jury the latter had always in fact been instructed in brutal and sneering tones to convict the defendant or forever after to regard themselves as disloyal citizens, oath violators and outcasts though the stenographic record of his remarks would have led the reader thereof to suppose that this same judge was a conscientious, tender-hearted merciful lover of humanity, whose sensitive soul quivered at the mere thought of a prison cell, and who meticulously sought to surround the defendant with every protection the law could interpose against the imputation of guilt.

I cannot have a disloyal Company servant spreading dissension and sedition throughout the colony.

When Rachel had tried to explain about noise pollution, Cosmo had told her to piss off, and her own disloyal children had roared with laughter, refusing to make daisy chains because they wanted to play with the boat, too.