How to Use disloyal in a Sentence

disloyal

adjective
  • It would be disloyal to abandon them.
  • Not on my end, but people who would see me as disloyal, no longer part of the team.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Never were disloyal to me or never went against me in the game.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Because to balk, even a bit, would be seen as disloyal to Trump --and that is not allowed.
    Gloria Borger, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Those who are disloyal are sent to Vinny in H.R. and never seen again.
    Lynn Hsu, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Odysseus, with help from his son Telemachus and his patron goddess Athena, kills all of the suitors and the twelve palace maids found to be disloyal.
    cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Some of her senior staffers kept a list of career appointees deemed disloyal to Reagan and let the entire staff know of the list.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Pete may be a disloyal son and a rookie cop, but he’s also got that Gen-Z savvy.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The first class is loyal, the second class is disloyal, and the lower class waverings.
    Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
  • First, there's the disloyal argument, in which rats fleeing a sinking ship are attempting to pin blame on the man in charge.
    Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Most of the critics won’t speak on the record out of concern of seeming disloyal to an official state party effort.
    The Bend Bulletin, oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
  • Nobody wants to be seen as mentioning any names, because that would be seen as disloyal.
    vanityfair.com, 5 Apr. 2017
  • To leave his father alone with those things would have felt disloyal, cruel, and dangerous.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • Military leaders have struck a posture that’s not disloyal but still allows the ship of state to correct its course.
    Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The problem is that so many in our political class are disloyal to voters.
    Brian Flood, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • This was black struggle in the South as the guns roared, coming out of loyal and disloyal states, creating their own liberty. . .
    Adam Sanchez, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
  • But relying on Democrats for votes would bring other problems for McCarthy if he is seen as disloyal to his ranks.
    CBS News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But relying on Democrats for votes would bring other problems for Mr. McCarthy if he is seen as disloyal to his ranks.
    Lisa Mascaro, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Patrick responded that, in his opinion, Jackson was disloyal, rather than a racist.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • The hiring managers and HR would contend that the person is either a poor performer and trying to leave before they get fired or is disloyal.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • But now those silly photographers, most of whom were rank amateurs or, worse, disloyal or failed artists, would get the job.
    Anthony W. Lee, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
  • La Follette delivered a classic answer to the charge that dissent in wartime is disloyal.
    Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The mass arrests of the democrats, in January 2021, was followed by an overhaul of the city’s elections, with new laws to root out candidates who could be deemed disloyal to Beijing.
    Tiffany May, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • His first order of business, aides have said, is to crack down on disloyal Republicans.
    Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Portnoy and listeners alike called her greedy and disloyal.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In other words, a crucial way to subdue disloyal sentiment in the South would be to create a new loyal Black electorate.
    Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Tillerson disagreed with the president on Iran and North Korea, and Trump viewed him as disdainful and disloyal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The chief one to watch will be the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, perhaps the most overtly disloyal member of the rancorous cabinet.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • That has made some aides wary of presenting inconvenient facts to the president for fear of being labeled disloyal.
    Alex Thompson, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • Trump is vindictive and revels in excoriating his opponents and anyone perceived to be disloyal to him.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024

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