An act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

Usage examples of disappointment.

It was growing late, and as the shadows blackened he walked faster, till once more the lane began to descend, there was a sharp turn, and he found himself, with a good deal of relief, and a little disappointment, on familiar ground.

But for Adams the house was to be the setting of great disappointment and much sorrow.

When she saw Arian leave with his parents, a feeling of relief laced with disappointment twisted her insides.

Young maids were set atwitter by the notion that such a daring and handsome gallant would be housed in the manor, but their smiles drooped in disappointment when the word was given that his lordship would be taking his lady to his country estate when the morning came.

Jacques-Marie Houdon was a barely discreet four steps behind Norma Bellini, Madoc noted with no great feeling of disappointment.

Well, the first moments of it were already something of a disappointment, though Commander Blenheim was not sure why.

If there was a disappointment on these tapes, it was a Gotti reference to the Castellano hit.

Her only real disappointment was that Lester Mon Dama had been called back to Irrya yesterday.

For neither of them was the Orient exhausted by their uses of it, even if there is often a quality of disappointment, disenchantment, or demystification to be found in their Oriental writings.

Hounslow, not the mysterious Saint of Seven Dials, she saw with a tiny pang of disappointment.

They will not form a wrong opinion of me when they see one emptying the purse of my friends to satisfy my fancies, for those friends entertained idle schemes, and by giving them the hope of success I trusted to disappointment to cure them.

Frequently the beautiful white kind is sought for by the typical name only, so that if a plant were supplied accordingly there would be disappointment at seeing a somewhat coarse specimen, with small rosy flowers, instead of a bold and beautiful plant with a base of large vine-shaped foliage and strong stems, numerously furnished with large white flowers, quite 2in.

But this being locked, hope, the only balm of affliction, forsook her, and had she not felt the indispensible necessity of actual exertion, this new disappointment would have overthrown her purpose.

The disappointment caused by its prognostic inaccuracy was as pathetic as the circumstances surrounding the sudden renown of leading futurologists were amusing.

The truth of these suggestions was plausible, and the noble Genoese drew back in cold disappointment.