Collocations withdisappointment

These are words often used in combination withdisappointment.

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big disappointment
But the big disappointment is how little current empirical evidence is drawn upon to support their claims.
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bitter disappointment
To those who had aspired to better things, the horrors of the half century after emancipation came as a bitter disappointment.
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deep disappointment
The publication of these letters must have been a deep disappointment to those who thought that a great moral scandal was likely to be revealed.
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feeling of disappointment
They had great hopes, and as the years have gone by they have had a certain feeling of disappointment.
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grave disappointment
I know that there will be a great many of them who will regard this secession as a serious blow and a grave disappointment.
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great disappointment
Great disappointment notwithstanding, quarantine was often not a surprise.
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greatest disappointment
It was with the greatest disappointment that we found.
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huge disappointment
However, this slim book is a huge disappointment.
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major disappointment
It applies especially to the chapter on laboratory evaluation of neuroendocrine systems, which is a major disappointment.
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profound disappointment
Profound disappointment is experienced by those who have prayed, perhaps an entire congregation.
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sense of disappointment
His ' ' unimpressed ' ' visitors therefore left with a ' ' keen sense of disappointment ' ' (65, 60).
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tremendous disappointment
In that respect they must feel, whatever they can do on that smaller territory, a tremendous disappointment.
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