disloyalty
adjective C2
Plain meaning
failure to support someone or something you should support
Exam-register meaning
In formal or high-level texts, it is used to describe failure to support someone or something you should support, often with a precise or specialised tone.
In context
naturalHis response sounded disloyalty, so the conversation became difficult.
examThe passage presents a disloyalty assessment of the policy’s wider consequences.
Common collocations
a disloyalty responsedisloyalty behavioura disloyalty situation
Watch out
Do not use “very disloyalty” automatically; some advanced adjectives already carry a strong meaning or need a more natural intensifier.
Word family
disloyaltyness (noun, where natural)disloyaltyly (adverb, where natural)