Antonym: encouragement, inspiration. Similar words: appointment, disappointed, appoint, discontentment, disappear, disapprove, contentment, resentment. Meaning: [‚dɪsəpɔɪnt'mənt] n. 1. a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized 2. an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone.
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181. There was still the bitter disappointment of his failure to win the recognition he deserved.
182. In many cases this is due to great disappointment: if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself?
183. He also expressed his disappointment at the lack of support from his colleagues in academic circles.
184. To his disappointment, Bessie and Edgebone were already sitting there enjoying the night air.
185. The result is that, when relationships break down, women's disappointment is often accompanied by extraordinary, uncomprehending bitterness.
186. Help had been so close - and the disappointment was all the greater for it.
187. Composites, which have attracted takeover speculation, were inclined to ease on disappointment that Pearl had been targeted.
188. I knew it would be a disappointment to Papa, and to Mama, too, and the heck with Uncle Haywood!
189. At first Jack Mulcahey had been a disappointment to the villagers.
190. My disappointment with the voting was that not one woman was elected to the National Assembly.
191. But they expressed disappointment that sales decisions failed to match the Government's rhetoric.
192. A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
193. A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
194. I felt a sharp stab of disappointment and was surprised and angry at myself.
195. The biggest disappointment so far is shooting guard Dion Cross, who has been anything but.
196. This may involve dealing with depression, disappointment and many other feelings that have arisen since retirement.
197. Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause.
198. The one single disappointment to Stanley during his recovery was his inability to read.
199. Jess felt such a deep sense of disappointment that she was startled by it.
200. A big disappointment for me was the fact that Ron wasn't there.
201. There had been deep disappointment in the Conservative Party with the results of their own reform of local government.
202. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
203. The resuscitated patients often speak of a great sense of disappointment and loss on waking.
204. For much of the way he talked about his disappointment, going over the details of his discussions with Gorbachev.
205. I've been left out of previous games, so I just took the disappointment with me.
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206. The proof of the pudding was in the eating: the modusvivendi turned out to be a great disappointment.
207. Home-baked pizza is often a disappointment because of one simple error: too much sauce.
208. Undoubtedly to the disappointment of the leakers, Inman came through the whole affair like a breath of fresh air.
209. There was universal enthusiasm among ministers and environmental groups in Bonn, tinged with slight disappointment at the reduced targets.
210. The continued process is often accentuated by disappointment in the other because of an earlier idealization.
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