Disloyalty
[dɪs'lɒɪ(ə)ltɪ]
Definition
(n.) Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unfaithfulness, undutifulness, faithlessness, treachery, perfidy, want of loyalty, lack of fidelity, dereliction of allegiance.
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Examples
- On one occasion a correspondent put in my mouth the very charge I had so often refuted--of disloyalty. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His regret was for his baseless disloyalty to one who had saved the lives of every member of his party, and offered harm to none. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If, perchance, the black is killed, it is evidence of his disloyalty to Issus--the unpardonable sin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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