disloyalty

Example Sentences

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This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

It is also possible that some voters will dislike any whiff of disloyalty and division and express themselves accordingly.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

"It's too bad, sort of disloyalty," Trump said.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Keith Ellison had to defend using Thomas Jefferson’s Quran at his 2007 swearing-in, amid baseless claims of Muslim disloyalty.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2025

Richard wanted to say something about her disloyalty to her friend and then realized how hypocritical it would sound, even if only to himself.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie