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
  • Edwards says those who failed him and the disloyal agents have to be held accountable.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This wasn’t the first time someone claimed Drake had disloyal people in his camp.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Stop labeling those who don’t support you as crazy or disloyal.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Nobody wants to be seen as mentioning any names, because that would be seen as disloyal.
    vanityfair.com, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Future pulls up with the energy on his verse, calling out disloyal friends and those who aren’t built like him.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • To leave his father alone with those things would have felt disloyal, cruel, and dangerous.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • The problem is that so many in our political class are disloyal to voters.
    Brian Flood, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The first class is loyal, the second class is disloyal, and the lower class waverings.
    Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Marcano Tábata did not fall because he was seen as disloyal.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Patrick responded that, in his opinion, Jackson was disloyal, rather than a racist.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His first order of business, aides have said, is to crack down on disloyal Republicans.
    Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • She’s hurt by a lover’s betrayal, but more hurt that her suspicions of his disloyal nature were proven right from the beginning.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Such conversations may feel safer than chats with other writers, who may perceive their worries as disloyal to the union’s cause.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • That disloyal, greedy kid at the center of college football’s first apparent holdout?
    Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • La Follette delivered a classic answer to the charge that dissent in wartime is disloyal.
    Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Those who consider Loeffler disloyal don’t know him.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • For some, public criticism of the nation can feel disloyal or disrespectful.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Pride turns into protection, and questioning feels disloyal.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The defense team has sought to paint the group, which did not include Cary, as disloyal and lacking any evidence of actual wrongdoing.
    Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 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

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