Disloyal vs Dishonest - What's the difference?
disloyal | dishonest | Synonyms |
without loyalty; faithless, traitorous.
* 1623 , , Act i, scene 1,
Not honest.
Interfering with honesty.
(obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
* Alexander Pope
* Sir T. North
(obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between disloyal and dishonest
is that disloyal is without loyalty; faithless, traitorous while dishonest is not honest.disloyal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- O disloyal thing, That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st A year's age on me.
dishonest
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
- Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.