disloyal
English
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial
Pronunciation
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Adjective
disloyal (comparative more disloyal, superlative most disloyal)
- Not loyal, without loyalty.
- 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383,[1]
- Good your Grace, let not any light fancy, or bad Counsel of mine enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyall heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutifull Wife, and the Infant Princesse your daughter […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 2,[2]
- […] Norway himself,
- With terrible numbers,
- Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
- The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
- 1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 15,[3]
- He told his mother he was glad to be back again. He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs. Erlich.
- 1998, William Maynard Hutchins (translator), “My Donkey and Hypocrisy” by Tawfiq al-Hakim, in In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, p. 65,[4]
- Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.
- 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383,[1]
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Translations
without loyalty
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