disappoint
IPA: dɪsʌpˈɔɪnt
verb
- (transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.
- (transitive) To deprive (someone of something expected or hoped for).
- (transitive, dated) To fail to meet (an expectation); to fail to fulfil (a hope).
- (transitive, dated) To show (an opinion, belief, etc.) to be mistaken.
- (transitive, obsolete) To prevent (something planned or attempted).
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Examples of "disappoint" in Sentences
- One place where small wine shops can disappoint is on price.
- The only way this punchline will disappoint is if there never is a follow up.
- A major BSG disappoint is that although the Cylons supposedly had a plan the writers didn't.
- They never cease to disappoint, which is why I changed my party affiliation last November to unaffiliated.
- "Inevitably, all presidents during their term disappoint some of their supporters," said Brian Frederick, a political science professor at Bridgewater State College.
- There is no update on it, but it is still an engineering program, but one of the action items after the disappoint was the lack of that launch is that we wanted to really build our
- But from a purely shoot-em 'up standpoint the movie does not disappoint, that is if mindless, wanton violence with a little nudity thrown in for good measure in your cup of Sunday night tea.
- With China tightening and the US dollar gaining strength, prices of commodities would disappoint, which is a negative for Indonesia because one-third of the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) market capitalization is in commodity-related counters.
- However, the EXPECTATION any intelligent discourse from wwallace will result in disappoint and additional frustration, followed by ignorant rhetorical bantering that will only prove their self-serving interests rather than any plausible or factual data to support their claims.
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