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.
  • And few things grate at Trump like the prospect of disloyalty.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
  • And few things grate at Mr. Trump like the prospect of disloyalty.
    New York Times, 25 June 2021
  • Even so, his name was cleared from the taint of disloyalty.
    Alfred W. McCoy, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • His habit of disloyalty and stepping on people is about to catch up to him.
    Amy Chozick, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
  • The rest of us would be forgiven for any acts of disloyalty.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The feeling of disloyalty is so strong because Johnson is meant to be on their side.
    NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Most Americans assumed that the rebels would be made to pay for their disloyalty, in some way.
    Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • The disloyalty to cities and fans, the money grub, naked and continuous.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • This is the first lawsuit centered on the Alaska disloyalty clause.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Screening has changed that. Toughing it out is now a shameful act of disloyalty.
    Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 13 May 2020
  • The Sedition Act, passed in the spring of 1918, expanded the Espionage Act to encompass still more acts of vague disloyalty and threat.
    Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The true sin was disloyalty to Trump, not the attempt to overturn the legitimate vote tallies.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Distraught with the de-coupling of the show's early faves (and Mike's wandering eye), fans of the series took to Twitter to rant about the 24-year-old's perceived disloyalty to Leanne.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • His opposition to those bombs led to charges of disloyalty and capped his downfall.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
  • On occasions when Fox appeared to show any disloyalty to the president, Trump railed against the network.
    Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
  • At first the two played along with their Naviti tribemates, working with Kellyn and her crew to pick off the Malolos and sniff out disloyalty.
    Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • In this small-scale thriller, disloyalty and passion are judged almost as harshly as murder.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That put more pressure on the IDC, which started to see real activism brewing around their disloyalty.
    Jen Kirby, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The saga of Freeman’s free agency is about greed and disloyalty, but it’s also a story about opportunism.
    Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The emperor’s court saw his warnings as disloyalty, and the emperor sent Qu Yuan to exile.
    Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • Once again, the rabbis were publicly accused of disloyalty to Israel.
    Amanda Ripley, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Truth-telling and acts of integrity beget the scarlet letter of party disloyalty.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Yovanovitch and Taylor have been attacked by Trump supporters and, in some cases, have been accused of disloyalty.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Loyalty is hugely important to me and disloyalty is even worse.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024

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