legalis

pertaining to the law

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At a small café table, a man holds his wife's hand openly while secretly interlacing his other hand with another woman's behind his chair.

noun

disloyalty

dis-LOY-ul-tee/dɪsˈlɔɪəlti/

Lack of faithfulness to someone or something owed support.

Etymology

disOld Frenchaway, apart; undoing or absence

+loyalLatinpertaining to the law

+tyOld Frenchstate or quality

The law-related base developed the sense of being honorable and faithful. The negative prefix and noun ending turn that quality into its absence: a failure of faithfulness, especially a violation of allegiance or duty.

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