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disaffected
[ dis-uh-fek-tid ]
adjective
- discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
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Other Words From
- disaf·fected·ly adverb
- disaf·fected·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disaffected1
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Example Sentences
Think like a typically disaffected and frustrated voter: “All the changes in state government” sounds pretty good!
It rapidly incorporated military equipment and skills from disaffected units of the Iraqi army.
But Patterson said that at the moment he is not directly appealing to disaffected Tea Partiers.
And their message was one tailored to the disaffected young descendants of Muslim immigrants in Europe.
It was illegal to hold political protests in Poland in 1989, so 10,000 disaffected students got together in fancy dress.
He therefore removed the sons out of his way, with a view of annihilating the hopes of the disaffected.
A secret society, whose founders belonged to the disaffected spirits of the nation, had already taken root in it for a long time.
So astute was he as to render him unpopular with a section of the natives, and notably with those who were disaffected.
To be an Irish Volunteer was to be “disaffected,” and to be “disaffected” was to be liable to summary measures of repression.
His most valuable possessions outside Spain, the provinces of the Netherlands, were disaffected to a foreign rule.
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