How To Use Disloyal In A Sentence

The newspapers have branded the rebel MP disloyal.
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
The death and torture camps, barbaric prisons for political opponents and routine beatings for anyone suspected of disloyalty are well documented.
He grunted and disappeared, Walter following disloyally at his heels. Last Night at Chateau Marmont
Armitage has been fighting for balance within the interagency process for some time - and for that is probably considered disloyal to the President.

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As always, he felt disloyal at deserting his neighbor, the Reeves Building Barber Shop.
‘I found it boring myself,’ he says, disloyally.
James Carville thought it was appropriate to liken Bill Richardson to Judas who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver when he endorsed Barack Obama and reiterated his incongruous biblical analogy on CNN by saying that Richardson was being "disloyal" - not to the country, but to the Clintons. Sam Sedaei: The Price of Loyalty
The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon. The Art of Letters
He has been dishonest and disloyal and I've just put up with it. Times, Sunday Times
They may even accuse the child of disloyalty.
I think its a snub to their belief system and they feel disloyal if they don't step up and say something about it.
Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
It was, the paper believed, an exhibition of disloyal sentiment.
He is quick to rebut any suggestion that he has been disloyal to his parents' memory. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a cancer in the Labor Party, this disloyalty.
The CIA says it is confident of being able to screen out unsavory or disloyal applicants.
Section 3 was justified by the fear that voters in one state or district might elect candidates who are disloyal to the country as a whole.
But this is largely explained by the compromises of coalition rather than outright disloyalty to Mr Cameron. Times, Sunday Times
This followed its 1862 Treason Act, which was never held to cover the expression of disloyal sentiments.
Then, perhaps having seen the error of his choice in the damage it's wreaking in non-Evangelical circles, he has disloyally thrown her to the wolves. Maggie Van Ostrand: Prominent Republicans Not Endorsing Obama May Cast Closet Votes for Him
Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
After wanderings and criticisms and grumblings and little disloyalties of the tongue all Englishmen come back to an England immovable and eternal. St. George and Merrie England
I think the latter bit (criticizing the shortcomings of the moderated proposals on the table and laying out better policies) tends to be more helpful in moving the process along than the former bit (criticizing the people involved in the process for their alleged failings and disloyalties). Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes
He was convicted of making disloyal statements and demoted for telling a reporter there that he was in the military and that he opposed the war.
If by uppermost he meant right beside his constant scheming to restore his treacherous family to the wealth and power they had squandered in disloyalty, then I suppose he spoke truly enough. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Worse, they'll regard your contentment as being somehow disloyal to them. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, such criticism can readily be cast as disloyal.
And Charlotte's successful modeling agent, Oscar, deals with the requisite disloyalties of the fashion business by affecting a leisurely shorthand in which he customarily speaks of himself in the third person. Model, Teen and Terrorist Face a Culture of Appearances
Her friends accused her of disloyalty.
Indeed mamma began to reproach me for what she called my disloyal and treacherous sentiments. Daisy in the Field
She stood wilfully swaying a branch of the tendrilled arbor, and, he subtly felt, so dissatisfied with herself for her temporary disloyalty that she felt alien to them both: Marshby because she had wronged him by admitting another man to this intimate knowledge of him, and the other man for being her accomplice. Different Girls
Few of you, because you agreed with her actions, thought about how she was disloyal to her employer.
Yes, loyalty is always needed. But sometimes disloyalty is also his loyalty.
Even good publicity could make a banker uppity, disloyal and limelight - seeking.
Clark tried not to entertain the disloyal thought that that might not be such a bad thing after all.
They were called traitors, were called unpatriotic, and were accused of the cardinal British aristocratic sin of disloyally failing to support their own side, of batting against their own side. Re: The Other Lesson Of Munich.
Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
I remember feeling disloyal to the country that had been my host for almost twelve months - the day before we had gone around in shorts and t-shirts and already it seemed like a dream.
And I believe he puts a lot of weight on loyalty, and he disdains disloyalty.
He has been dishonest and disloyal and I've just put up with it. Times, Sunday Times
Not many works loudly proclaim the virtues of suspicion, disloyalty, uniformity and rampant egotism. The Times Literary Supplement
Considering how disloyally and in bad faith the army recruits new soldiers, I feel, I fear, we have to put a stop to it. Amnesty guaranteed for all army deserters, our true heroes!
One passage reads: ‘I regard personal disloyalty as the worst crime of all, and have killed some guilty of it without a qualm.’
Thus the ‘primary object’ of the organization would be ‘to discountenance and rebuke by moral and social influences, all disloyalty to the Federal Government.’
But they will never leave, and to show disloyalty is death. Reflective Surface - Archives: 2005 April
To be separated from him for any length of time meant to be in mortal danger, for Hitler was susceptible to whisperings about disloyal acts and even outright treason perpetrated by the absent person.
By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President, and because disloyalty is a valid ground for dismissal, there's nothing to criticize. Is That Legal?: March 2007 Archives
I don't want to seem disloyal. Christianity Today
Lincoln was a great president, but he had to deal with cabinet crises, disloyalties and resignations which, historians say, threatened the war effort. CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008
Afterwardes they entred into the churche with great deuotion, where when the Duchesse had made certaine particuler praiers, shee began to perceiue that God had withstanded her lasciuious wil, and pitying the good Duke her husband, would not permit him to be deceiued in suche disloyal sort, repentantly bewayling her forepassed faulte. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Whatever the case, using "betray" -- a word associated with treason -- recalls the ugly McCarthy era, when for too many Republicans dissent corresponded with disloyalty. Richard Cohen Brings On the Stupid
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, the authors wrote, considered Hillary an icy prima donna; her husband (who after exiting the White House often called Daschle, imploring him for help in burnishing his legacy) a narcissist on an epic scale; the dynamic between the couple, bizarre; their treatment of their friends, unforgivably manipulative and disloyal. In 'Game Change,' the Clinton profile gets more complex
The short answer: your most-convertibles are going to be folks who already buy your brand, but "very disloyally. But Whom Should I Target? - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBlogger
When the pope's authority is then intentionally extended to the Vatican curia, there exists a real possibility that unquestioning obedience to very human decisions about a whole range of issues by the curial departments and cardinals also becomes a mark of one's fidelity as a Catholic, and anything less is interpreted as being disloyal to the pope who is charged with steering the bark of Peter. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: A Fear-Based Church?: Why So Many Catholics Are Afraid to Speak Out
Ambitious, treacherous, and disloyal to his elder brother Llywelyn, he allowed himself to be manipulated by English kings.
She was so disloyal to her deputy she made his position untenable.
Yet what holds the play together is a sense of disloyalty and unscrupulous greed.
However, according to Clarin, the Argentine daily newspaper, Heany at one point did begin to feel disloyal to her country, which created some tension among the team.
I have not deserted the military nor been disloyal to the men and women of the military.
In fact our government went so far, in 1958, as to declare May 1st "National Loyalty Day," which makes anyone officially participating in a Workers Day rally disloyally un-American. Michael Gene Sullivan: International Workers Day
They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some spiteful remark about the friends'parents.
The original draft called for associates to refrain from ‘all social intercourse and dealings with disloyal persons’.
But hiding a fantasy - the attraction to another woman - is like keeping a secret from his partner and it is this restriction of truth that seems so disloyal to me.
It was too unpalatable, too disloyal, altogether too abhorrent to countenance.
She courageously stood up to people who called her disloyal; one male colleague even punched her for suggesting that the U.S. should wait before it killed innocent civilians. Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D.: After 9/11 And War, Building Paths For Co-Existence
The away fans were unsure how to react, not wanting to seem disloyal but not prepared to sing in support of their manager. Times, Sunday Times
The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
No-one, as the clubs' campaign managers are doubtless aware, wants to be accused of disloyalty at a time when the prospect of a stable future and a better team is dangled before them.
To single out the Jews as being singularly separate and disloyal from the rest of America is the very soul of anti-Semitism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
Officials are managing to shift the spotlight shift away from their failings, while the crew themselves are now being targeted as disloyal to a colleague who tried her hardest and came up short.
The congress studiously avoided any mention of independence or disloyalty to the Crown. America Past and Present
Maybe the women wanted her to bounce the president out of the White House because he had been disloyal to her.
But sometimes when political capital is low, really, really low, when your own worshipers begin thinking disloyal thoughts, you have to pull out all the stops.
He bristles at the notion that his views could be seen as disloyal to his country.
She felt guilty of disloyalty to her dead husband.
She was also accused of philistinism, particularly because of a remark she made at a private dinner party, disloyally leaked by a fellow guest.
It was very disloyal of you to repeat what I'd said to Peter.
I deplored the way that, when the two of us were alone together, he would listen to tittle-tattle for hours on end when he must have known full well that not only was it disloyal to the victims but that both of us had more important things to do.
Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
He was/felt deeply wounded by their disloyalty.
I immediately rebuked myself for the disloyal thought.
By his deceit he shall make some who were disloyal to the covenant apostatize ; but those who remain loyal to their God shall take strong action.
There are hints of a lost love and a past disloyalty, but it isn't until the film moves into its final third that we understand the forces underlying Marianne's resurrection.
A consideration of loyalty necessarily involves con - sideration of disloyalty, which must also be viewed in different and shifting contexts, and in a variety of forms, including treason, sedition, security risk, and subversion, each in gross and in subtle meanings. LOYALTY
The internees had done nothing wrong, but many felt shamed by being singled out, locked away, accused of disloyalty; to criticize the government might seem to prove they were in some way guilty.
By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
The letter stated that her involvement in the resolution ‘demonstrated faithlessness in and disloyalty to the University and exhibited an unwillingness to work for the common good of the University.’
Slave was abolished not only in disloyal states, but throughout the Union.
At the same time, critics of his position are painted as disloyal, unpatriotic and anti-American.
One may just be accused of being negative or even of being unpatriotic and disloyal to one's country.
It would be understandable if she thought that expressing an interest in her biological roots might seem disloyal to her stepfather, the man she was always proud to call Dad.
He implied that Oppenheimer was confused, complicated, unpatriotic and disloyal.
The away fans were unsure how to react, not wanting to seem disloyal but not prepared to sing in support of their manager. Times, Sunday Times
It usually infuriates me when people say that writers are just "looking for copy", because it is very rarely the case, but the idea skipped disloyally through my mind for one uncomfortable moment. With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey – review
Happily, this wayward and pettish, I will not call it disloyal spirit, has passed away, and most of the "Annexationists" are now heartily ashamed of their conduct. Roughing It in the Bush
And it is not unpatriotic and not disloyal to dissent with the views of the President, or anyone else for that matter.
In such an atmosphere, it is inevitable that dissent will be equated with disloyalty and that the line between the two will be blurred.
A declaration of personal belief can amount to a disloyal statement if it disavows allegiance owed to the United States by the declarant.
He is quick to rebut any suggestion that he has been disloyal to his parents' memory. Times, Sunday Times
Q If I could follow up on that, doesn't it seem like -- I almost want to use the word disloyal for an official to be told, you can't tell your boss this. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
He says it would be disloyal to all the Chelsea fans.
his men acted disloyally and betrayed him in the end
In such societies, one's eccentric taste is always more likely to be construed as a threat to the community - as a signifier of disloyalty - than as an icon of aspiration.
They violate agreements and are disloyal to the treaties they have signed.
The consequence of this financial policy was an immense opportunity for the "disloyally" and the parasites to make huge war profits out of the Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North
I am going to get my own pony, which is better than any YOU will ever see because I am going to cooperate with my FORMER friends, (whom I have disloyally left behind in the dust). CT-SEN: Can Lieberman Be Pushed From Race?
Perhaps disloyalty to an existing dispensation that has endowed one with one's privileges does look like radical chic.
Frederick takes what he calls seconds; neighbours misunderstand it for an expression of disloyalty. Love at Paddington
venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
Most pernicious consequences [would follow (?) _ -- illegible in MS_.] and many other districts would be disloyal and rebellious; and it would be necessary, when they should have sufficient religious instruction, to go back and win them and [_illegible in MS_.] anew. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
The president appreciated that his defense secretary didnt play out his battles in the media unlike, say, Powell and that he never uttered a word of disloyalty toward him. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
But his obsession with not wanting to be disloyal to the leader is hurting him vis- vis the other contenders on the ground game.
wounding and false charges of disloyalty
There are a number of behaviors that can be classified as disloyal. Surviving in an Angry World
Imperial officials were bound by strict rules designed to prevent disloyalty and corruption; even the doge was "expressly barred from accepting gifts of any value from a foreign agency. The Doges of War
For I am of the opinion, perhaps in contrast to many whose standpoint I share in other respects, that the reconquest of the German-speaking left bank of the Rhine is a matter of national honour, and that the Germanisation of a disloyal Holland and of Belgium is a political necessity for us. Think Progress » Annan Deputy Criticizes U.S. Policy; Bolton Demands Apology, Says U.N. Will Be ‘the Victim’
Worse, they'll regard your contentment as being somehow disloyal to them. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway you slice it, back-stabbing is hurtful, deceitful and disloyal.
In this case, telling someone isn't being disloyal to your friend - it's sometimes necessary to break confidence to ensure a friend's well-being.
Or, if help seemed inevitable, I would stay with him as well, even if it meant risking my own life. It just seems so dishonourable, selfish and disloyal to me to simply continue with the mission and leave him.
These boundaries determine who is in and out, pure and impure, and loyal and disloyal to the group ethos.
He began to purge senior ranks, firing officers he considered disloyal.
The new president carried out a purge of disloyal army officers.
It was a place of suspicions and disloyalties, Wu Xiaoling had proved that. The Edge of Madness
A fellow journalist told me the other day that he admires Powell for making his disagreement clear without being publicly disloyal to the president.
'Back-stabbing and disloyalty,’ lamented another true-blue MP.
Apart, however, from the immorality of such reasoned hypocrisy, which no man with a particle of honesty will attempt to blink, there is the intellectual improbity which it brings in its train, the infidelity to truth, the disloyalty to one's own intelligence. On Compromise
Several stated that they had heard no one utter disloyal sentiments, but others gave different testimony.
A person like myself whose sole goal is good government is vulnerable to subterfuge and concerted efforts by a disloyal colleague like Dan to remove me from the Parliament.
Or, if help seemed inevitable, I would stay with him as well, even if it meant risking my own life. It just seems so dishonourable, selfish and disloyal to me to simply continue with the mission and leave him.
He put dissidents, or those suspected of a scintilla of disloyalty, into stinking jails which were often death centres.
I feel as if I am being disloyal to my oldest and once-dearest friend, someone whose warmth and generosity used to light up my life, but whose shortcomings such as overambition, overcomplication and, sometimes, lack of focus have started to get me down. Archive 2005-02-01
If Lance senses the slightest hint of disloyalty or lack of dedication, you're gone.
She found herself thinking disloyally, He must be a lousy lecturer.
The War Department issued specific instructions for this guard duty, including orders for addressing disloyal acts by civilians against such structures.
In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty, but had actually made Franco back down.
He made her feel cheap, disloyal, childish and socially inferior.
Why—speaking of disloyalties, forsakings, and acts that seemingly cannot be explained—did I forsake myself to draw cartoons, when I am averse by nature to caricature, ribaldry, and violence? Kalooki Nights
I have never been disloyal to him, because he has always done the business for me and Holland.
I don't want to seem disloyal. Christianity Today
Immediately she was accused of disloyally taking a president's son outside the United States for his education.
They may even accuse them of disloyalty.
He said that within police circles public disagreement over policy issues was still akin to disloyalty. Times, Sunday Times
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We might consider the way, in groups of three or more, how there's always the possibility of two people being disloyal to the gathering, and how to moderate that behaviour.
disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers
The immature, self-centered, disrespectful, disloyal, lying pig is getting what he deserves. Jenny Sanford files for divorce
Clearly, disloyalty is not an attribute of Gonzales, who has shown himself willing to perform virtually any task for his “Godfather,” no matter how dishonest or demeaning. Matthew Yglesias » Fredo
Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new covenant. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
He declared that the citizens of Boston ‘were disaffected to the Laws of the Land’ and were in a state of ‘open Rebellion, Disobedience, and Disloyalty,’ and that the clergy were foremost in ‘oppugning the Authority of the Laws of the Land.’
And it is not unpatriotic and not disloyal to dissent with the views of the President, or anyone else for that matter.
Neighborhoods seen as politically disloyal sometimes faced problems such as unplowed winter streets. For Obama, Chicago Days Honed Tactics
Sure they can do that - they are paying the employee, and it is stupid to keep feeding an employee who is disloyal to the company.
The disloyal thought was instantly suppressed.
That the drama commences with eccentric characters and their disloyal proclivities causes the viewer to be disillusioned with the whole idea of relationships.
It was said there that a key factor in determining whether there was a breach of a fiduciary duty is a finding that the fiduciary acted disloyally in placing its interests ahead of the beneficiary's.
These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. PUTTING THE "FEDERAL" BACK IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE
The US and UK governments regard mentioning it as disloyal or heretical.
That whiny and disloyal Max the Dog is crushed along with the goods as they tumble down the slope and smash to flinders.
Under the names of the two harlots, Oolla and Ooliba, are described the manifold disloyalties of Samaria and Jerusalem, with the punishment of them both. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
At the regular sitting of the parliamentary group on Tuesday, no final decision was taken about the fate of the disloyal MPs.
“What glue holds a marriage together despite disloyalties, professional failures, free-floating anger and regret for the life not lived?” she asks, failing to notice that neither she nor Yglesias answer the question. A Happy Marriage
Brian sided with his sister, which led his mother to accuse him of being disloyal.
He was dismayed to learn of their disloyalty.
Anyway you slice it, back-stabbing is hurtful, deceitful and disloyal.
He manipulates people and events to suit his own purpose and any opposition to his will is seen as disloyalty.
His inflammatory public remarks against British policy in Ireland caused W. M. Hughes to castigate him as disloyal.
As a father himself he finds such disloyalty and betrayal completely unacceptable.
When this question arises, we think of Amanda, the marketing manager besieged by complaining customers and disloyal subordinates.
Party fealty is praised as a virtue, and disloyalty to party is treated as a species of incivism next in wickedness to treason. Literature and Life (Complete)
He didn't want to be disloyal to his employer.
He is quick to rebut any suggestion that he has been disloyal to his parents' memory. Times, Sunday Times
As a father himself he finds such disloyalty and betrayal completely unacceptable.
She was also accused of philistinism, particularly because of a remark she made at a private dinner party, disloyally leaked by a fellow guest.

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