as in traitorous
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
we sensed that he was disloyal and would eventually turn on us
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Recent Examples of disloyal
As the Times reports, the first stars Arthur’s nephew, Sir Gawain, a knight who faces off with Germanic Saxons invading from mainland Europe and disloyal English nobility—including his father.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Remember Gartner’s finding that 96% of customers become disloyal after a high-effort interaction.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Any policy that deviates from the central government’s could be seen as politically disloyal.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
That is part of a broader push to dismantle or remake institutions that are considered by the administration to be wasteful, disloyal or standing in the way of its objectives.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Remember Gartner’s finding that 96% of customers become disloyal after a high-effort interaction.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Any policy that deviates from the central government’s could be seen as politically disloyal.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
That is part of a broader push to dismantle or remake institutions that are considered by the administration to be wasteful, disloyal or standing in the way of its objectives.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disloyal
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Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The cooling system in her second-story apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had always been unreliable.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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This showed that changes in the truck's speed produced turbulence in the liquid helium, making measurements of its presence unreliable.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2025
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“Disloyal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disloyal. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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