DISLOYAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disloyal mean? 

• DISLOYAL (adjective)
  The adjective DISLOYAL has 2 senses:

1. showing lack of love for your country

2. deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle

  Familiarity information: DISLOYAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISLOYAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing lack of love for your country

Synonyms:

disloyal; unpatriotic

Similar:

un-American (considered contrary to the best interests of the United States)

Also:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle

Context example:

disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers

Similar:

faithless; traitorous; treasonable; treasonous; unfaithful (having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor)

insurgent; seditious; subversive (in opposition to a civil authority or government)

mutinous (consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny)

rebellious (participating in organized resistance to a constituted government)

recreant; renegade (having deserted a cause or principle)

Also:

disloyal; unpatriotic (showing lack of love for your country)

Attribute:

loyalty; trueness (the quality of being loyal)

Antonym:

loyal (steadfast in allegiance or duty)

 Context examples 

He could not be disloyal to his kind, and it was to more than Lizzie Connolly that his hat was lifted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This loud speech, coming from a man of so formidable an appearance, somewhat daunted the disloyal party, and they fell into a sullen silence, which enabled Alleyne to hear something of the talk which was going on in the further corner between the physician, the tooth-drawer and the gleeman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)