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as in saddening
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as in inadequate
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as in failing
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 disappointing
Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
28 June 2026
The Angels have fired general manager Perry Minasian midway through their sixth consecutive disappointing season under his leadership.
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Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Ian Harrison,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
This is a departure for Cornyn, disappointing some defenders of the effective 60-vote threshold for the passage of most legislation in the Senate.
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W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
As Jim Cramer noted on our June Monthly Meeting, our patience has run thin with this disappointing position.
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Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
28 June 2026
The Angels have fired general manager Perry Minasian midway through their sixth consecutive disappointing season under his leadership.
—
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Verb
Shakira Austin made four free throws down the stretch and the Washington Mystics held on to beat the expansion Tempo 68-65 on Friday night, disappointing a sellout crowd of 8,210 at Coca-Cola Coliseum.
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Ian Harrison,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
This is a departure for Cornyn, disappointing some defenders of the effective 60-vote threshold for the passage of most legislation in the Senate.
—
W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappointing
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The result is a bonus both surprising and saddening.
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The backlash from certain parts of the media has been extremely saddening, particularly given how hard John works to raise awareness and understanding.
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The complaint alleges that the conduct contributed to two patient deaths linked to inadequate care.
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Frustration has mounted over what many Venezuelans saw as an inadequate government response, with soldiers, firefighters, police and emergency services struggling to respond to the scale of the disaster.
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The Athletics beat the Dodgers 7-1 on Wednesday night, giving the West Sacramento team its only win of the series with the Dodgers, winners of the past two World Series, failing to secure a three-game sweep.
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Such a bond occurs when a judge grants a compassionate release for inmates who are in failing health and no longer a threat to the community.
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The Erika plot is one of the several dissatisfying threads in this episode.
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Last season, the Bruins strung together three wins against Rutgers, Nebraska and Iowa – but that team resembled Chip Kelly’s decent-if-dissatisfying regime.
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About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
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What is often misunderstood is that any of these virtuous behaviors can manifest as deficient vices when underdeveloped and as excess vices when strong but unsupported by the other 10 character dimensions, as evidenced by Steve Jobs.
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And using what looks like a giant pile of gerbil food for half-day cooking projects just feels like cheating.
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The chapters moved from crime rates to cheating teachers to drug dealers living with their mothers, linking unlikely variables with a kind of intellectual mischief that felt almost illicit.
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Still, this was a discouraging result for anyone wearing yellow in Kansas City.
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The Chicago Blackhawks needed plenty after a discouraging 2024-25 season.
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More broadly, the idea that White players are inherently inferior no longer matches reality.
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This is because Austria would have remained on three points but with an inferior goal difference to Iran in the third-place standings (minus one to zero).
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“Disappointing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappointing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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