as in to fail
to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of
they were disappointed by the outcome of the big game
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Recent Examples of disappoint
Bad Bunny, or Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, did not disappoint.
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Lara N. Dotson-Renta, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
Even commissioners admitted to being disappointed.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
Amy Hall, the daughter of a former adviser to the student newspaper, and Jon Womastek, a UCO alumni, who filed the complaints, both said they were disappointed by the committee’s analysis.
—Emma Murphy, Oklahoma Voice, 12 Feb. 2026
Shriya Dwivedi, a Phoenix resident who attends the Basis Peoria charter school, was disappointed to hear EPA was about to repeal the endangerment finding.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
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Lara N. Dotson-Renta, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
Even commissioners admitted to being disappointed.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
Amy Hall, the daughter of a former adviser to the student newspaper, and Jon Womastek, a UCO alumni, who filed the complaints, both said they were disappointed by the committee’s analysis.
—Emma Murphy, Oklahoma Voice, 12 Feb. 2026
Shriya Dwivedi, a Phoenix resident who attends the Basis Peoria charter school, was disappointed to hear EPA was about to repeal the endangerment finding.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for disappoint
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappoint
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That shutdown ended with a promise to vote on extending the subsidies, which failed.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Previous versions of the bill failed to gain traction in both chambers last year.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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Over the past year, men’s ski jumping has been marred by Norway’s cheating scandal and more recent genital manipulation rumors, which has become one of the early commotions of the Milano-Cortina Games.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Among the reasons Belichick was not inducted are his involvement in cheating scandals, such as Spygate and Deflategate, according to ESPN.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries and capturing leaders who displease them, with a lawlessness that by comparison makes the 2003 invasion of Iraq seem as lawyered up as a bank merger.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
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Trump has also extracted settlements from ABC and CBS News in lawsuits over stories that displeased him, and is suing the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.—
David Bauder,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
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The administration's hardline immigration enforcement has upset millions of Americans who supported deporting immigrants with criminal records but who are uncomfortable with the aggressive tactics and detention of longtime community members and their children.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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Hayley’s very upset by it, and that upsets Mickey, and that’s probably one of the biggest driving motivations for him, not just to save his own life, but to save his daughter and his family from the ramifications of this.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Disappoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappoint. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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