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# disloyalty

«disloyalty» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not being loyal: failing to support or be faithful to a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (disloyalty, disloyalties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not being loyal: failing to support or be faithful to a friend, family, team, country or cause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#m1)

2) A disloyal act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history: disloyalty to a king can be called treason; in the Bible, Judas' betrayal and Peter's denial are famous stories of disloyalty, and Peter was forgiven. In friendships: telling a friend's secret is disloyalty. Phrases: «disloyalty to», «an act of disloyalty», «accused of disloyalty».

### examples

- Telling her secret to everyone was an act of disloyalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x1)
- The king punished the knight for disloyalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x2)
- Peter wept bitterly over his disloyalty to Jesus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x3)
- Switching to the other team felt like disloyalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x4)
- The captain would not forgive disloyalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x5)
- Sam's disloyalty hurt more than losing the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/#x6)

### note

Mostly uncountable; countable for single acts. Adjective: «disloyal»; opposite «loyalty». Stronger words: «betrayal», «treachery».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disloyalty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disloyalty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.