desleal

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

• deslealmente

desleal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular desleal or desleale)

1. disloyal (not loyal)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     "Ce est li chiés
     De cest chevalier que tu as
     Conquis ; et, voir, einz ne trovas
     Si felon ne si desleal.["]

     "This is the head
     Of the knight that you
     conquered; and see! Never will you find
     Such an evil and disloyal knight

• leal

• deslealté

• → English: disloyal
• French: déloyal

From des- +‎ leal.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: des‧le‧al

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

   concorrência desleal ― unfair competition

   • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Conde de Azevedo and António Feliciano de Castilho, Dom Quixote:

     Que te demoras, Leonela, em ir chamar ao mais desleal amigo de quantos viu a Rosa divina, de quantos a noite nunca favoreceu?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• deslealmente

From des- +‎ leal.

• IPA^(key): /desleˈal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: des‧le‧al

desleal m or f (masculine and feminine plural desleales)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

   competencia desleal ― unfair competition

• “desleal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28