sense of disappointment

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseanddisappointment

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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disappointment
noun
uk
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/us
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/
the feeling of ...
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(Definition ofsenseanddisappointmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of disappointment

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His ' ' unimpressed ' ' visitors therefore left with a ' ' keensenseofdisappointment' ' (65, 60).
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Asenseofdisappointmentcan be registered over the expansion of the argument to the structure of contemporary apologetics.
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Those who expressed ' asenseofdisappointmentin the rehabilitation programme ' elucidated the mismatch of the intervention with their perceived needs.
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The soldiers' testimonies, however, conveyed a deepsenseofdisappointmentand frustration over their failure to fulfil their imagined sense of themselves as soldiers.
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The real issue is the profoundsenseofdisappointmentin communities as they watch what goes on in the courts and the criminal justice system.
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Nevertheless, there is asenseofdisappointmentand frustration throughout the whole country.
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Although the end of the review is a relief, it leaves all those who are concerned for local democracy with a profoundsenseofdisappointment.
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Yet people sometimes have asenseofdisappointmentover the way things have gone.
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By 1970 there was a greatsenseofdisappointmentabout what had been achieved and had not been achieved.
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That has led to asenseofdisappointmentand frustration.
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There is a greatsenseofdisappointment, as there would naturally be in any district at the loss of such a hospital.
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It was not the loss of the public right of access or anything of that nature that caused thatsenseofdisappointment.
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I have still asenseofdisappointmentthat there has not been a firmer commitment to extend the period for appeal.
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I always listen to what he says with great interest, but always with a slightsenseofdisappointment.
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That will only deepen thesenseofdisappointmentwhich will be felt among the shopkeeping community.
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I remember the profoundsenseofdisappointmentwhen that project was cancelled.
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After making all allowances for that, however, one closes the report with asenseofdisappointment.
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I notice, indeed, a certainsenseofdisappointmentwith the statement that the achievement which has been made could not be wholly attributed to us.
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It would be very wrong if the workers were encouraged to feel asenseofdisappointmentand frustration by an erroneous statement about extra profits.
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I for one feel a greatsenseofdisappointmentthat the number of individual shareholders continues to fall.
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