Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Disloyal, unfaithful: Describes a person who betrays trust, faith, or allegiance, especially to a superior, a cause, or one's country. It implies a breach of loyalty or fidelity.
   • Treacherous: In a stronger sense, it can describe actions or behavior that constitute treason or a profound betrayal of a fundamental duty.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Kẻ bất trung sẽ bị trừng phạt. (The disloyal person will be punished.)
  • Hành động bất trung với tổ quốc là không thể tha thứ. (An act of treachery against the homeland is unforgivable.)
  • Bộ tướng bất trung đã đầu hàng kẻ thù. (The unfaithful general surrendered to the enemy.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in formal, historical, or moral contexts to describe a serious character flaw or crime, particularly concerning duty to rulers or the nation.

Variants and Related Words

• Sự bất trung (n): The state or act of disloyalty, infidelity.
  • Sự bất trung của viên quan đã bị phát giác. (The official's disloyalty was discovered.)

Synonyms

• Disloyal: Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or idea.
• Unfaithful: Not faithful, especially in marital relationships or allegiances.
• Treacherous: Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.
• Traitorous: Involving betrayal of trust or treason.

Related Idioms

• Bất trung bất hiếu: Disloyal and unfilial. This idiom condemns someone who fails in the two fundamental Confucian duties: loyalty to the sovereign and piety to parents.
  • Kẻ bất trung bất hiếu bị xã hội khinh rẻ. (One who is disloyal and unfilial is despised by society.)

1. Disloyal, unfaithful