disleal

comparative more disleal · superlative most disleal

1. obsoleteraredisloyal; perfidious

   disleall knight

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5

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   In whiche manner thou being falſelye and trayterouſlye aſſaulted, ſhalte not be hurte, and the enemy ſhal ſhew himſelfe to be diſleal, which hadde thought to haue hurt thee, if he hadde bene able.

   1563, Peter Whytehoꝛne, transl., Onoſandro Platonico, of the Generall Captaine, and of his office […] , fol. 113

   I hope many douzins vvill not ſubſcribe this abſurd and diſleall petition

   1606, Matth Svtcliffe, A briefe examination, of a certaine peremptorie menacing and disleal petition presented, as is pretended, to the Kings moſt excellent Maieſtie […] , London, page 137, marginal note 4

   Synonyms: faithless, infidelitous, unleal, booky, dastardly, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing