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disloyalty

[dis-loi-uhl-tee] / dɪsˈlɔɪ əl ti /


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The Chinese leader’s anticorruption campaign has widened into a fight against everything from disloyalty to “superstitious” behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Soviet authorities often saw the fact of their capture as a sign of possible disloyalty or collaboration with the enemy.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Orbán's actions amounted to "a gross act of disloyalty", while European Council head António Costa described them as tantamount to "blackmail".

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

She felt fiercely that she had to make up for her father’s criminal disloyalty, if it had existed, whatever it might have been.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Bill Whitman is a Carverian ex-husband pummeled by remorse for his assorted disloyalties.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2018

Whitman is a Carverian ex-husband pummeled by remorse for his assorted disloyalties.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2018

Despite many internal disorders and disloyalties ... the people of the Soviet Union generally trust and respect the wisdom and integrity of their leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

The radiant synthesis of a pungent existence And not the disloyalties of a dispersed dream.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

But apart from this uncertain question of generosity, there are in this case two powerful forces that make against disputes, secret disloyalties, and meanness.

From What is Coming? by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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