disaffected
IPA: dɪsʌfˈɛktɪd
adjective
- Alienated or estranged, often with hostile effect; rebellious, resentful; disloyal.
- (obsolete) Affected with disease.
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Examples of "disaffected" in Sentences
- I personally am 31, a mite too old to be called disaffected youth.
- But they love those so-called disaffected Clinton Democratic votes even more.
- But they love those so-called disaffected Clinton Democratic votes even more. '
- McCain advisers also say he must win a number of so - called disaffected Democrats.
- FX's hard-hitting boxing drama costars Pablo Schreiber — best known as disaffected dock worker Nick Sobotka from Season 2 of HBO's inner-city masterpiece — as Johnny Leary, the ethically shady manager of Holt McCallany's "Lights" Leary.
- Of course, it is worrying that certain disaffected young people — Muslims and converts to Islam — express their alienation and rejection through Islamic extremism and that a tiny minority actually want to blow themselves and others up, just as it is terrible that young people go on shooting sprees in schools.
- And I think that -- the experience I've had certainly -- is that there are people that are involved in this movement [who] came out of -- not what I call a disaffected population but a group of people who heretofore worked every day, paid their taxes, sent their kids to school, went to church and did it all over again the next week.
- Those so-called disaffected "Democrats" and neo-cons who keep saying "I don't trust Obama" (strain at a gnat) but then swallow, whole, the hypocrisy and dirt-bag-ethics of John McCain (swallow a camel) are really little more than doctrinaire reactionaries anyway, who simply would hate any Demcrat, no matter who it is: Hillary, Obama or whoever.
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