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  • noun Plural form of disloyalty.

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Examples

  • I think the latter bit (criticizing the shortcomings of the moderated proposals on the table and laying out better policies) tends to be more helpful in moving the process along than the former bit (criticizing the people involved in the process for their alleged failings and disloyalties).

    Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes 2010

  • “What glue holds a marriage together despite disloyalties, professional failures, free-floating anger and regret for the life not lived?” she asks, failing to notice that neither she nor Yglesias answer the question.

    A Happy Marriage 2009

  • “What glue holds a marriage together despite disloyalties, professional failures, free-floating anger and regret for the life not lived?” she asks, failing to notice that neither she nor Yglesias answer the question.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • It was a place of suspicions and disloyalties, Wu Xiaoling had proved that.

    The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008

  • Lincoln was a great president, but he had to deal with cabinet crises, disloyalties and resignations which, historians say, threatened the war effort.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008 2008

  • Why—speaking of disloyalties, forsakings, and acts that seemingly cannot be explained—did I forsake myself to draw cartoons, when I am averse by nature to caricature, ribaldry, and violence?

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • And Charlotte's successful modeling agent, Oscar, deals with the requisite disloyalties of the fashion business by affecting a leisurely shorthand in which he customarily speaks of himself in the third person.

    Model, Teen and Terrorist Face a Culture of Appearances 2001

  • After wanderings and criticisms and grumblings and little disloyalties of the tongue all Englishmen come back to an England immovable and eternal.

    St. George and Merrie England 1954

  • Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new covenant.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • Under the names of the two harlots, Oolla and Ooliba, are described the manifold disloyalties of Samaria and Jerusalem, with the punishment of them both.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

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