Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality of being disloyal; faithlessness.
- noun A disloyal act.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of loyalty; specifically, violation of allegiance or duty to a sovereign, state, or government.
- noun Want of fidelity to one's obligations or engagements; inconstancy in duty or in love; faithlessness; perfidy. Spectator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An act of being
disloyal ; abetrayal . - noun uncountable The quality of being disloyal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being disloyal
Etymologies
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Examples
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Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President, and because disloyalty is a valid ground for dismissal, there's nothing to criticize.
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Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President, and because disloyalty is a valid ground for dismissal, there's nothing to criticize.
Is That Legal?: The Firings of U.S. Attorneys: A View From A Distance 2007
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The president appreciated that his defense secretary didnt play out his battles in the media unlike, say, Powell and that he never uttered a word of disloyalty toward him.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Clearly, disloyalty is not an attribute of Gonzales, who has shown himself willing to perform virtually any task for his “Godfather,” no matter how dishonest or demeaning.
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The president appreciated that his defense secretary didnt play out his battles in the media unlike, say, Powell and that he never uttered a word of disloyalty toward him.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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The president appreciated that his defense secretary didnt play out his battles in the media unlike, say, Powell and that he never uttered a word of disloyalty toward him.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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The president appreciated that his defense secretary didnt play out his battles in the media unlike, say, Powell and that he never uttered a word of disloyalty toward him.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President, and because disloyalty is a valid ground for dismissal, there's nothing to criticize.
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But they will never leave, and to show disloyalty is death.
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But they will never leave, and to show disloyalty is death.
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