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disloyalty

[dis-loi-uhl-tee] / dɪsˈlɔɪ əl ti /


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This is an astonishing display of incompetence, or disloyalty, or both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Garden eventually went on record to suggest that the lack of repeats was punishment for the trio's "disloyalty", saying in 2020: "It seems they've held that grudge ever since."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The waves of purges aimed at rooting out corruption and disloyalty have pushed many officials to focus on finding ways to please Beijing and avoid punishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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

Again she felt the trickle of disloyalty and guilt, which seemed to be the order of the day, and reacted to it by reaching over to cover Lane’s hand with her own.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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

He paid the heavy price of the man of imagination; he was capable of far excursions of the spirit, disloyalties to habit and even to faith, he was open to rare communications.

From The Tragic Muse by Henry James

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

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various


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