How to Use disloyalty in a Sentence
disloyalty
noun- His disloyalty to the company led to his dismissal.
- She had no tolerance for disloyalty among those under her command.
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Doubt starts to feel like disloyalty.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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His habit of disloyalty and stepping on people is about to catch up to him.
—Amy Chozick, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
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A lot of disloyalty this season with lots of empty words.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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To quit, meanwhile, would be to open themselves to charges of disloyalty or weakness or both.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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They were often seen as distractions or even a sign of disloyalty.
—Sarah Travers, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
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The courts have warned against treating dissent as disloyalty.
—Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
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The feeling of disloyalty is so strong because Johnson is meant to be on their side.
—NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
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Most Americans assumed that the rebels would be made to pay for their disloyalty, in some way.
—Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 12 July 2018
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His opposition to those bombs led to charges of disloyalty and capped his downfall.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
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In this small-scale thriller, disloyalty and passion are judged almost as harshly as murder.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
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In this small-scale thriller, disloyalty and passion are judged almost as harshly as murder.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
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Soon enough, its absence may be interpreted as a sign of disloyalty.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
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The disloyalty to cities and fans, the money grub, naked and continuous.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2018
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This is the first lawsuit centered on the Alaska disloyalty clause.
—Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2022
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Is there a legitimate way to pass a loyalty test, or is the very act of taking such a test proof of disloyalty?
—Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 19 Oct. 2017
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Sixty years have passed, and the entire family is still clouded by this disloyalty.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
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Truth-telling and acts of integrity beget the scarlet letter of party disloyalty.
—Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2021
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Those suspected of disloyalty are rounded up, jailed, and often tortured to death.
—Elizabeth Tsurkov, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2019
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Once again, the rabbis were publicly accused of disloyalty to Israel.
—Amanda Ripley, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
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Security forces are deserting in droves, and the government has launched a wave of arrests to stem disloyalty in the ranks.
—Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
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The true sin was disloyalty to Trump, not the attempt to overturn the legitimate vote tallies.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Mar. 2021
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In my opinion, attending this wedding would not demonstrate disloyalty to your wife, but in your household my opinion will not matter all that much.
—Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
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The emperor’s court saw his warnings as disloyalty, and the emperor sent Qu Yuan to exile.
—Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
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More tellingly, though, are the troubles that come to those who show signs of disloyalty toward the President, such as Sanford.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 14 June 2018
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And still, some people insist that admitting the flaws in our history — and our present — constitutes an act of innate disloyalty.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
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That put more pressure on the IDC, which started to see real activism brewing around their disloyalty.
—Jen Kirby, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
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The only thing linking these targets, then, is not disloyalty to the president and his agenda, but to some set of peeves Bannon himself holds.
—Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 11 Sep. 2017
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Such items might have been interpreted as evidence of disloyalty to the United States.
—National Geographic, 17 Feb. 2017
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