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• n  a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
  his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment
• n  an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

• His great novel is a bitterly funny and bitterly unfunny account of lethal disappointment in the Connecticut suburbs in 1955.
• A collective sigh of disappointment could be heard in bars and homes around Uganda seconds after Maureen Namatovu, the Ugandan contestant on the reality-TV program Big Brother .
• A maudlin President Bush reflects on the disappointments of his tenure and struggles to own to his mistakes.

• letdown
• dashing hopes

News & Articles

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• Bloomberg group keeps gun control dialogue going with 100-day bus tour
  The disappointment of the U.S. Senate’s failure to move forward with a debate on strengthening gun background checks in April lingers for Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung.
  June 13, 2013 - New Haven Register
• Good could come from disappointment of 2013
  Idaho never truly recovered from its disappointment in Las Vegas last year. Going in as the No. 3 seed in the 2012 Western Athletic Conference Tournament, the Vandals were buzzing. They’d beaten the top two ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Argonaut
• Japanese disappointment weighs on global markets
  Disappointment that the Bank of Japan did not unveil more measures to boost the economy as well as uncertainty over the course of U.S. monetary policy weighed hard on global markets Tuesday. There had ...
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Tiger Wood in USA Today
  I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children,said Woods in the statement. "I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask...
• David Villa in Financial News USA (press release)
  The disappointment is very big. We had a lot as our goal and we didn't succeed.For the Spanish, it's everything they've been working for these last four years.We worked hard to get here and now we have made the final,Villa said. "It's a...
• Philipp Lahm in The Associated Press
  Right now, I really don't feel like playing for third place,captain Philipp Lahm said. "The disappointment is very big. We had a lot as our goal and we didn't succeed."