Disloyal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disloyal \Dis*loy"al\, a. [Pref. dis- + loyal: cf. OF. desloial,
     desleal, F. d['e]loyal. See {Loyal}.]
     Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to
     the government under which one lives; false where allegiance
     is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a
     husband disloyal to his wife.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Without a thought disloyal.              --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
  
     Syn: Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious;
          dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disloyal
       adj 1: showing lack of love for your country [syn: {unpatriotic}]
              [ant: {patriotic}]
       2: deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or
          principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to
          the papers" [ant: {loyal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "disloyal":
     alienated, apostate, collaborative, deceitful, derelict,
     disaffected, estranged, faithless, false, fickle, heretical,
     inconstant, not true to, of bad faith, perfidious, recreant,
     renegade, subversive, tergiversant, tergiversating, traitorous,
     treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, trothless, unfaithful,
     unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, untrustworthy