What is "disappoint"

Usage examples of "disappoint".

There is, in fact, no building on earth which can sustain the burden of such greatness, and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing.

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.

So we do the Academic Adagio, the Deconstructionist Dip, the Theosophical Thrash, to rationalize why we love or hate or enjoy or find disappointing some book or movie or comic or tv show.