Definitions
deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle
Word origin
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial, equivalent to dis- + loyal.
Used in a sentence
“[…] Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;”
“He told his mother he was glad to be back again. He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs. Erlich.”
“Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.”
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01“Unfaithful”8 letters
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