greatest disappointment

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatanddisappointment

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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disappointment
noun
uk
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/us
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/
the feeling of ...
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(Definition ofgreatanddisappointmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was with thegreatestdisappointmentthat we found.
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Mygreatestdisappointmentis over the community programme.
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Perhaps mygreatestdisappointmentis that once again we have put off a real opportunity to attack family poverty.
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Perhaps ourgreatestdisappointmentis with regard to enlargement.
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By far thegreatestdisappointment, however, is the retention of the absolute definition of blindness.
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Thegreatestdisappointmentand shock for them came when it was found that on the six o'clock news, nobody mentioned that their town had suffered from the raid.
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He later described this as thegreatestdisappointmentof his athletic career, and it was the final time he represented his country on the track.
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Hergreatestdisappointmentduring the series was being a warm and passionate woman in an essentially passionless marriage.
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Thegreatestdisappointmentis the failure to correct many of the errors in the original book, some of which are well-known...
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That he failed in this task remained perhaps hisgreatestdisappointment.
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Reagan described the new debt as thegreatestdisappointmentof his presidency.
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Sinnemki has stated that hergreatestdisappointmentin her political career is the decision on nuclear power in 2002.
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