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  • noun Plural form of disaffection.

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Examples

  • "The negative impact of economic policies geared to sustain the needs of defense and requirements of international allies contributed to a wide array of social disaffections."

    Kathy Kelly: Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National Interest 2010

  • Hip-Hop was the rumble of our generation, unveiling all our wants, fears, and disaffections.

    Excerpt: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008

  • "The negative impact of economic policies geared to sustain the needs of defense and requirements of international allies contributed to a wide array of social disaffections."

    Joshua Brollier: Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National Interest 2010

  • When satire is effective, it goes guns drawn at all that is decadent and corrupt as to make the object of its disaffections so riduncluous as to no longer be able to be taken seriously -- check to the gut for you, Nightly News, after years of coasting along comes Stewart-and-Colbert-wielding-technology (as well as sites like Think Progress) to put you in your place and to keep you on your toes.

    George Spyros: Climate Progress Coverage of Coen Brothers Clean Coal Ad 2009

  • These were all pastoral roles in which I had to deal regularly with member disaffections of various kinds, so I have some sense for how a bishop might feel in this situation.

    Response to the Bishop’s Letter. | Mind on Fire 2006

  • Ray's beautiful film of The Home and the World brilliantly brings out the novel's tensions, along with the human affections and disaffections of the story.

    Tagore and His India 2001

  • (LAUGHTER) ... but also from other intelligence services, reporting from allies, and they all indicate the same thing: that there are disaffections, that there are factions that are changing sides.

    CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001 2001

  • It is now too busy handling internal problems closer to home, similar rebellions and disaffections, and most lately the matter of the commander and the lost Sword, to effectively crack down on the worlds farthest away.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • It is now too busy handling internal problems closer to home, similar rebellions and disaffections, and most lately the matter of the commander and the lost Sword, to effectively crack down on the worlds farthest away.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • It is now too busy handling internal problems closer to home, similar rebellions and disaffections, and most lately the matter of the commander and the lost Sword, to effectively crack down on the worlds farthest away.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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