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disappointed

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Disappointed " was the fourth single by the English band Electronic . Like their first single " Getting Away with It " it featured Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys as well as founding members Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner . It was released in June 1992 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bitterly disappointed ▪ I was bitterly disappointed . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB bitterly ▪ Our younger child was bitterly disappointed when shown the discreet little warning notices. ▪ The local residents ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
defeat of expectation or hope; let down. v (en-past of: disappoint )

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, past participle adjective from disappoint . Related: Disappointedly .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: defeated , discomfited , foiled ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disappointed \Dis`ap*point"ed\, a. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.] Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. --Shak.

Usage examples of disappointed.

When Jefferson, claiming personal reasons, failed to return, Adams was especially disappointed.

Disappointed with the cramped accommodations available to him this time at the Hotel de Valois, Adams changed lodgings, moving to the Hotel du Roi on the Place du Carrousel, between the Palais Royal and the Quai du Louvre, which was to remain his headquarters.

GIVEN WHAT there was to see, Adams might have been terribly disappointed by the Federal City.

If he was wrong, and this failed, he had no reason to worry about all the Baka Ban Mana being disappointed in him.

An innumerable multitude pressed around him with eager respect and were perhaps disappointed when they beheld the small stature and simple garb of a hero, whose inexperienced youth had vanquished the Barbarians of Germany, and who had now traversed, in a successful career, the whole continent of Europe, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Bosphorus.

I suppose I disappointed Captain Bellhanger too, that night I ran away.

Some of the xenos have been openly disappointed, because I think they believed the tri-dee movies that say all sentient alien life is going to be bilaterally symmetrical humanoids with lobsters on their foreheads.

The Buffs, bitterly disappointed at having lost their chance of joining in the Tirah expedition, remained at Malakand in garrison.

And since seeing that I have imagined Jacques Cartier in 1535 looking off to the southeast, when his disappointed vision of the west had tired his eyes, and catching first sight of these dim indentations of his sky, the White Mountains, which the colonists from England did not see until a century later and then only from their ocean side.

Several other friends in the Clackamas County area were also disappointed when they had cashed checks for Brown and they came back bouncing.

Each time Claribel went home, her mother contrived to bring the talk round to the young men she had met and always Claribel disappointed her.

He was mildly disappointed, and mildly relieved, that Clubfoot had come back with the herbs.

The one thing I am disappointed in is to find that the silk-cultivation with all the pretty girls who were engaged in it are transported to Cornuda and other places, -- nearer the railway, I suppose: and to this may be attributed the decrease in the number of inhabitants.

General Denbigh had indulged his younger son too blindly and too fondly to expect that implicit obedience the admiral calculated to a certainty on, and with every prospect of not being disappointed, from his daughter.

The expedient which was employed to elude the prudence of the laws, affords a sufficient proof how effectually they disappointed the mischievous designs of private malice or superstitious zeal.