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Disappointingly   /dɪsəpˈɔɪntɪŋli/  /dɪsəpˈɔɪnɪŋli/   Listen
Disappointingly

adverb
1.
In a disappointing manner.





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"Disappointingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... helped to make the contrast between Alton and London tolerable to her, but they had their drawbacks, for good partners at the dances, and good performances at the spiritless opera and concerts, were disappointingly scarce. Flirting she could not endure; she drove men away when they became tender, seeing in them the falsehood of Smilash without his wit. She was considered rude by the younger gentlemen of her circle. They discussed her bad manners among themselves, and agreed to punish ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... Riseholme, led by herself, rejected as valueless all artistic efforts later than the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a great deal of what went before. Her husband with his firm grasp of the obvious, on the other hand, would be disappointingly capable even before her maid confirmed his conjecture, of concluding that she had ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson


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