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disloyal

[dɪsˈlɔɪ(j)əɫ]

disloyal adjective: not loyal, without loyalty.

Adjective

disloyal (comparative more disloyal, superlative most disloyal)

  1. Not loyal, without loyalty.
    • 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 […]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
    • […] Norway himself,
      With terrible numbers,
      Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
      The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

disloyal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

disloyal in Tamil

இடித்து வீழ்த்து, பிரித்தெடு, தேசப் பற்றில்லாத

disloyal in Urdu

بےوفا, غدار, سرکش

disloyal in Malayalam

faithless, unfaithful, false
കൂറില്ലാത്ത, സ്വാമിഭക്തിയില്ലാത്ത, വിശ്വസ്തത പാലിക്കാത്ത, വിശ്വാസമില്ലാത്ത, വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ കൊള്ളാത്ത, വശ്വാസവഞ്ചന ചെയ്യുന്ന

disloyal in Kannada

ನಂಬದ, ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಳಿದ, ನಿಷ್ಠೆಯಲ್ಲದ, ಅಪ್ರಮಾಣಿಕ

Examples of disloyal in a sentence

  • He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs.1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 15:
  • It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.1998, Tawfiq al-Hakim, “My Donkey and Hypocrisy”, in William Maynard Hutchins, transl., In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Boulder...
  • Trump said, accusing the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, and its secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, of being disloyal and trying to make life difficult for him.2024 August 4, Neil Vigdor, “Trump Says Georgia’s Governor Is Hampering His Efforts to Win There”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Synonyms of disloyal

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Forms of disloyal

comparativemore disloyal
superlativemost disloyal

Origin of disloyal

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial, equivalent to dis- + loyal.

Words formed from disloyal

Questions about disloyal

What does disloyal mean?
Disloyal means not loyal, without loyalty.
What is disloyal in Tamil?
Disloyal in Tamil is இடித்து வீழ்த்து, பிரித்தெடு, தேசப் பற்றில்லாத. See Disloyal meaning in Tamil.
How do you use disloyal in a sentence?
He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs.
What part of speech is disloyal?
Disloyal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce disloyal?
Disloyal is pronounced [dɪsˈlɔɪ(j)əɫ] (UK).

Words near disloyal in the dictionary

  1. dislodging
  2. dislodgings
  3. dislodgment
  4. dislodgments
  5. disloigned
  6. disloyal
  7. disloyalist
  8. disloyalists
  9. disloyally
  10. disloyalness
  11. disloyalties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disloyal (page history and authors); disloyal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disloyal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disloyal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disloyal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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