disappointing

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The results are, however, sometimes disappointing from the German point of view, as in the case of the soldier who, being spattered with dirt but otherwise untouched, picked himself up, and remarked with profound contempt, "The dirty swine The immediate approach to the trenches is usually marked by what sailors call a "dodger," which is to say, a series of canvas screens.

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  1. adjective Not up to expectations or hopes: a disappointing test score; finished the marathon in a disappointing 12th place.

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  • The decision to delay publication of the Bloody Sunday report in Northern Ireland is deeply disappointing, a committee of British MPs said today. —  ireland.com Breaking News
  • For all the talk about what the Rockies were demanding in return, the end result was somewhat disappointing -- Street suddenly lost much of his effectiveness in —  MVN
  • Everything about the Peterborough FA Cup game was disappointing, apart from the company of my fellow Albion fans. —  Express & Star
  • Sometimes the top weekend box office movie can be terribly disappointing, as is the case with Monsters Vs Aliens. —  Hecklerspray
  • Just this morning, I woke up with the following thought in my head: how disappointing -- even devastating -- it would be to discover that all of this writing I've been doing over the past four years came only from "me." —  One Cosmos
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disappointing:   disappoint ·  disappointed ·  disappoints
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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