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Meanings of disloyal in English

Catalan
antipatriòtic

Showing lack of love for your country.

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        antipatriòtic

        Deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle.

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              Examples for "loyal"
              1
              They know, of course, that each is loyal to a different government.
              The Guardian
              2
              Local authorities say the news, if true, has not reached loyal followers.
              Reuters
              3
              I expect he will remain loyal to this strategy, said one diplomat.
              Reuters
              4
              Elections in 2008 brought a strongly conservative parliament deeply loyal to Khamenei.
              Reuters
              5
              However, he faced unprecedented protests in 2011 from a usually loyal army.
              Reuters
              Usage of disloyal in English
              1
              Yes, they refused to be disloyal, and thus Cyrenaica is still secure.
              The Memoirs of Cleopatra
              2
              From people who are serially disloyal and decimated their own minority government.
              The Guardian
              3
              The Scotch in Upper Canada are not and will not be disloyal.
              Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2
              4
              There are plenty of shady doctors and duplicitous friends and disloyal team-mates.
              The Guardian
              5
              I know all Yorkists are ambitious and disloyal in their very cradles.
              The red queen
              6
              No thought disloyal to André hovered on the outskirts of her mind.
              The Mountebank
              7
              An example of a disloyal clerk comes from the neighbourhood of Barnstaple.
              The Parish Clerk
              8
              You let me take the fall, and that was dishonest and disloyal.
              Tough customer: a novel
              9
              I do not excuse myself- Ihavebeen weak and cowardly and disloyal.
              Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
              10
              The lad has been disloyal and insolent, if he is a Broux.
              The Helmet of Navarre
              11
              A thought crossed my mind which I dismissed as disloyal to Petronius.
              Shadows in Bronze
              12
              This much I will say: we have done nothing disloyal to Graustark.
              Beverly of Graustark
              13
              Nor did the embassy staffers feel they were being disloyal to humankind.
              The Sails of Tau Ceti
              14
              And those she had trusted were disloyal, helping him to go it.
              The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
              15
              But a divided kingdom, a disloyal and discontented people, spells the end.
              Long Live the King!
              16
              From this generous if somewhat disloyal sentiment his reverence was expressing dissent.
              The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
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