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Disloyal   /dɪslˈɔɪəl/   Listen
adjective
Disloyal  adj.  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. "Without a thought disloyal."
Synonyms: Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.






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"Disloyal" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking at the disloyal trooper thoughtfully. "We kin only hope fer the best. Wild Cat Bill is bringin' it in, an' Scar Faced Charlie is drivin'. 'F they git a chance to cache the stuff they will. Maybe," he concluded hopefully, "the detachment won't run across ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

... to existence. It may be a matter of choice, free and deliberate, a source of joy and social energy. Such nationality—whether inborn or acquired—is the best and safest asset which a State can possess. It is generally supposed that the naturalized subject must be disloyal in a case of conflict between his country of adoption and his country of birth. Such a view assumes that all sense of nationality is of the primitive and unreasoning kind. It precludes all the psychological factors of attraction, ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... "establish that there was no intention on the part of the master of the ship to trade with the enemy, except with the permission of the proper authorities. In the circumstances, such a defense must be established by very clear proof; ... although there is no reason whatever to impute any disloyal intention, or mala fides, ... the proof of non-liability on this ground has not been made out." On the contrary, it was insisted, in this dissent from the leading opinion, "there seems to be an absence ...
— Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War • Robert Granville Campbell

... their journey. He is the first handsel of the young rapiers of the templers; and they are as proud of his repulse as an Hungarian of killing a Turk. He is a moveable prison, and his hands two manacles hard to be filed off. He is an occasioner of disloyal thoughts in the commonwealth, for he makes men hate the king's name worse than ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle

... want to say or think anything disloyal," laughed Noll, as the two chums turned in at barracks, "but ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock


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