verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a disappointing start
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He accepted full responsibility for the club’s disappointing start to the season.
a poor/disappointing season
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It's been a disappointing season for Arsenal.
bitterly disappointed
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I was bitterly disappointed .
disappoint fans
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The concert was cancelled, disappointing hundreds of fans.
disappointing
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Sales for the first three months of this year were disappointing.
disappointing
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The country’s recent economic performance has been disappointing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
bitterly
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Henman will be bitterly disappointed but scarcely surprised.
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In this he was bitterly disappointed .
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Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.
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At the time I was bitterly disappointed .
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She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof.
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If so, they must have been bitterly disappointed .
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Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
deeply
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He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank.
extremely
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I will be extremely disappointed if we don't go on winning.
most
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This is probably one of the most disappointing days of my life.
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She had been most disappointed to find how little political activism there was in the colleges.
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In a half-season of torment and tribulation, the most disappointing teams are Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Dallas and Carolina.
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Perhaps most disappointing to the Shah was that President Nixon did not attend.
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Ohrenberger, the Superintendent, was in many ways the most disappointing one of all.
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I would also drop Tufnell, who was most disappointing in the First Test.
terribly
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He was terribly disappointed she hadn't flown at him or reacted more strongly.
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This is neither shocking nor terribly disappointing .
too
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Thank you for the interest you have shown in the post and the Department and I hope you are not too disappointed .
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I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown.
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With the Premiership his main ambition, will not be too disappointed if his team miss out.
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There was no reply and he wasn't too disappointed .
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She hoped he would not be too disappointed when he found them gone.
very
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I ran the tests on my system and was very disappointed with the results.
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I was very disappointed to find that the family swim session has been canceled this year.
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Rushing through it will result in failure, and very disappointing that can be, too.
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Frankly, I was very disappointed in the first two places we went to.
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Swindon's Chairman Ray Hardman says they're very disappointed .
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But we were to be very disappointed .
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The resulting pattern was very disappointing , it looked heavy and clumsy.
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You'd be very disappointed , even angry, but it would still be beautiful.
when
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He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank.
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We were disappointed when we were marked as having correctly classified only 32 solder joints out of the 34.
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I remember being disappointed when I woke up next morning to find that the party was over.
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She looks a little disappointed when she sees us close up but is too kind to say so.
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For a moment they were disappointed when Denise realised it was in fact the same car as one already written down.
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He was genuinely disappointed when it dawned on him that the cause of all the fuss was his father.
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She was disappointed when he told her he was sorry but it was being used for band practice that day.
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I was disappointed when I bit into a banana and it did not melt in my mouth.
■ NOUN
expectations
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Socialism could not yet be built and they would inevitably disappoint proletarian expectations .
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Yagüe did not disappoint Franco's expectations .
hope
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How did it come about that the Conservatives chose committees whose Reports disappointed their hopes ?
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Whitman, called a pagan by the church people, shared the note with which Melville ended, one of disappointed hopes .
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How could my disappointed hopes help them?
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It also gravely disappointed the hopes of the House of Lorraine, the claimants to the throne who represented the Merovingian blood-line.
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More than that, state intervention, and especially public ownership of the means of production, had sadly disappointed socialist hopes .
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However, the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces disappointed those hopes .
result
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The result was particularly disappointing , given the fact that the magistracy had already been purged by both Charles and James.
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The quarterback is the Herschel Walker of his generation, gifted beyond measure, with skills that astonish and results that disappoint .
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Initially the results were very disappointing as public expenditure continued to grow.
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If we hire pyramid builders, mechanics, or road builders to create an organizational fishnet, the results will be disappointing .
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One well tested oil and gas but the results were disappointing .
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A federally funded study of educational performance contracts in twenty localities found that the results were universally disappointing .
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The result was disappointing on each occasion.
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But again, the results have been disappointing .
■ VERB
feel
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Do you feel a bit disappointed that they've come along and perhaps stolen your limelight?
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I had the feeling I was disappointing him, and it filled me with a dull continuous inner chest pain.
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I often feel that they are disappointed in me.
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Frankly, I never used to feel guilty about disappointing inanimate objects.
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If refused, they may feel saddened, disappointed , or inconvenienced, but their self-concept isn't shattered.
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But now that the scene was taking place, he felt quite disappointed , even angry.
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Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert's great B flat Sonata.
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Many parents have an especially hard time when their children are feeling sad and disappointed .
prove
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Even this has proved disappointing for its slow development of preventative medicine, but it contributed further to many changes.
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Automakers cut production in the second half of 1995 when sales of cars and trucks proved disappointing .
report
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In November, the three companies reported disappointing third-quarter results.
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The chip maker said it expects to report disappointing results for its fiscal third quarter ending Dec. 31.
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On Tuesday, the company reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings of 72 cents a share, compared with estimates of 88 cents.
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Technology companies generally were down as several large companies reported disappointing earnings.
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In the first few days of trading this year, nervous investors have already punished high-technology companies that have reported disappointing earnings.
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Intel had record Nasdaq volume of 55. 9 million shares on July 19, when it similarly reported disappointing profits.
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Technology stocks fell a day after Motorola Corp. reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings.
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Chicago: Even though consumer spending surged toward the end of December, retailers reported disappointing holiday sales.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc
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He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bolton promised a great performance, and he didn't disappoint .
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there aren't any tickets left.
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Of course our kids disappoint us sometimes, but we don't stop loving them.
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The band disappointed thousands of fans by cancelling at the last minute.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He does not cheat or disappoint .
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I had the feeling I was disappointing him, and it filled me with a dull continuous inner chest pain.
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Many were disappointed in their aspirations.