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Sunday’s result: Ameerah B was in the right spot turning for home but spit it out badly through the stretch to finish far back in a disappointer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2019

Of course, part of your charm is that you’re an equal-opportunity disappointer.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2018

Folks who came to laugh, began to fear that they should remain to be instructed, until the gentlemanly disappointer began to speak, then they recovered their real "Artemus," Betsy Jane, wax-figgers, and all.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Ward, Artemus

Has Heskett been poaching again? or has that new pointer turned out a disappointer?

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

It is always a fatal blighter, blaster, disappointer.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett