How To Use Disaffect In A Sentence

  • The humorous tone is designed to encourage disaffected voters to take part. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
  • The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
  • Case in point: Openly anxious about grass-roots disaffection from the Republican Party, conservative Christian organizers are reaching for ways to turn out voters this November, including arguing that recognizing same-sex marriage could also limit religious freedom. September 2006
  • Disaffected eco-warriors around the world can now learn the lessons of a decade of resistance from Faslane Peace Camp and other UK protest sites, as a tunnel-builder's guide is published on the internet.
  • Indeed, disaffection and rebellion in Ireland convinced ministers of the necessity of parliamentary union.
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  • Some people will be disaffected with the Church, others are angry. Times, Sunday Times
  • What should have been a slam-dunk if Walker's proposal was really as extreme and disaffecting as unions claim turned out to be an even split," he continued. Breaking News: CBS News
  • China has in fact created this huge rallying point with I would imagine, millions of disaffected people.
  • But sunshine and grapevines have done nothing to ease his disaffection.
  • The rifts and disagreements were becoming public and the number of disaffected colleagues grew. Times, Sunday Times
  • This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • He is disaffecting his far left, and they are defecting to his opponent again.
  • And they are very disaffected with a Labour Party they believe has deserted them.
  • Armstrong takes his protest an intriguing step forward with this album by creating a rock opera informed by disaffection and disillusionment.
  • The images are intended to convey alienation and disaffection and succeed in doing that, but not much more.
  • But there are many signs of public disaffection with the two-party system.
  • The film features James Dean as a disaffected teenager.
  • Unless you do this, you will continue disability discrimination and disaffection for current and future generations of our children.
  • This time, the elections have shown the deep disaffection of many citizens throughout the Union. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mike, Raleigh: 18 million people aren't going to disaffect because their candidate lost. Obama keeps Dean
  • Protest was dealt with through military force, followed by resettlement of disaffected peoples to reduce their potential for trouble. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
  • Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
  • Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X.
  • The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only way to oust the discredited leadership was by force, and so dissidents turned to groups of disaffected army officers for help. A Rock and a Hard Place
  • What we've got to guard against is the real threat of the extremists and the radicalisation of young disaffected prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
  • Herein lies the underlying cause of so much disaffection. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, radical students espousing forms of Marxism, some combined with religious political rhetoric, joined the disaffected.
  • This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • He knew of the talks between my emissaries and those of Icenius, and has tried to subvert the alliance by disaffecting the loyalties of my daughter, turning her young head with smooth words and lies. The Eternal Mercenary
  • I understand that sentiment, and while addressing controversial issues may anger a few, not doing so could disaffect a far greater number of people if speaking out would have made a difference in the public understanding of an issue or led to an improved outcome as a result. Thomas Fisher: Tenure: Use It or Lose It
  • Reuters - WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say. WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
  • Reuters - WikiLeaks s ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers,... WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
  • We know the system is wrong when there are so many disaffected voters.
  • Today's peg is a report on the breakdown of family life, specifically disaffection among teenagers, and how the "media class" just doesn't get it. Current Affairs
  • Disaffected, dissatisfied adolescents are being kept away from the adult world for too long.
  • However, the benefits of the QPRIME system into the future far outweigh short-term disaffection by some officers," the spokesperson said. Australian Politics
  • American Jews cannot comprehend why Israel would risk disaffecting its greatest source of support by adopting measures that would actually make it more difficult to join the Jewish people. FailedMessiah.com
  • Nothing could be more calculated to disaffect him from the new dispensation and thus any such plan can only prove to be short-sighted in the extreme. Archive 2007-10-21
  • In Britain, Churchill and Milner were the main advocates of this, but Lloyd George, fearing disaffection among war-weary troops and workers, was opposed.
  • The racial dimensions of that alienation and disaffection are especially troubling.
  • The gravity of the economic situation meant that the appeasement of sectarianism was not sufficient to deal with the threat of working-class disaffection.
  • At a time when I was becoming very disaffected by the academicism of contemporary music, Louis's music showed that you can be sophisticated, adventurous, uncompromising, and utterly direct at the same time.
  • She avoids scholarly apparatus that would disaffect Hughes's loyal readership in particular and a literate public in general.
  • There are signs of growing disaffection amongst voters.
  • The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
  • At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The politician tried to disaffect every major voting bloc.
  • Thank goodness I have other things to fret about, like disaffected youth and the plight of the inner cities. Times, Sunday Times
  • And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • That sense of humor appeals to a more youthful audience because it makes fun of the totems of society that have really disaffected youthful voters.
  • Is it a s ign of wider disaffection within your regime? Questions for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • They turn out not to be French spies but disaffected Romantic poets out on moonlit walks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crime has reduced significantly, but poor educational attainment, poor housing and high unemployment continue to disaffect whole communities.
  • Back in olden times, say the early 1990's, a time of linear media and a small clutch of manageable news outlets, candidates routinely pivoted right (in GOP primaries) and left (in Democratic primaries) knowing that for the general election they could slide towards the center to build the winning coalition of their own party faithful, plus independents and a sprinkling of disaffected voters from the other party. Fernando Espuelas: Meg Whitman's Big Fat Latino Problem
  • It was the disaffected young westerners moving into the endless possibilities of the East. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mary was what you call a disillusioned and disaffected Democrat. CNN Transcript May 31, 2008
  • If necessary we'll cook up a disaffected ex-employee, or something. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
  • After this she abandoned her design of passing from county to county disaffecting the people with her prophecies, and we hear no more of her. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
  • More than three-thousand small rural communes were established by disaffected young people seeking a return to nature and the simple life.
  • The Lib Dems are failing to pick up disaffected liberal-left electors, and the Tories have flatlined since 2004.
  • League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the settlement of a cleruchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • The high-ranking LBGT operative who passed the numbers along cited them as evidence that the gay community was not disaffected with the president prior to November's midterm elections and that they would not lose patience with Obama even if he fails to persuade Congress to move major agenda items in the years ahead. Poll: Obama Had Strong Standing With Gay Community Even Before DADT Repeal
  • This obsession with "localness" - and the Liberal Democrats are by no means the only party it afflicts - is one of the factors that is leaching all meaninful contact from British politics and thus disaffecting the voters. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Because Reyna's play looks so effortless, because his game is not full of breakneck sprints or fabulous runs on the ball, he might look like a slacker, a disaffected American youth in cleats. USATODAY.com - Europe loves Captain America
  • His lacerating lyrics set to heavy squalls of blues-rock riffage made a stand for disaffected youth everywhere. The Sun
  • If the Tories seem like the nasty party again, disaffected Labour folk could well slouch back home, albeit grudgingly.
  • Very often the authorities were forced to acknowledge the wrongs inflicted on disaffected communities.
  • Part of the disaffection with the local Labour campaign also seems to stem from a feeling in some quarters, reported to this website, that it was ‘intimidatory’.
  • The new journal grew out of the general disaffection that had been floating around the discipline for years.
  • The disconnect between the frenetic pace of creative destruction in the private sector and the calcified, operating-as - always approach in government helps account for disaffected young Obama supporters on one side and fed-up tea party members on the other. From Wikinomics to the Tea Party
  • The 'happy family' pictures could challenge the claims depicting her as the disaffectionate surrogate and rattle reports that she never even visited the children. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • The abstention rate reflects the deep level of political disaffection and alienation felt by wide layers of the population.
  • That sense of malaise found its way into Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika, in which, says Schultze, he enlarges that feeling of disaffection and ‘brings it into the macrocosm.’
  • These include civic education and class discussion hours meant to solve the problem of disaffection and violence, aimed at impressing the public and confusing education staff with a flurry of charters and diktats.
  • She feels many people are disaffected with politics because they don't know what politicians do, or what councils do. Times, Sunday Times
  • * The White House-versus-left battle continues: Glenn Greenwald makes the case that the White House has every right to push back on lefty critics -- but he adds, and I agree, that pillorying or browbeating them isn't going to do jack to help Dem among base voters who are disaffected with Obama policies. The Morning Plum
  • In the early 1980s, skateboarding existed as a fringe sport, a kind of deviant activity undertaken by disaffected youths in California, breaking into abandoned lots or backyards to skate in empty swimming pools or on crudely constructed ramps.
  • On key issues like unemployment, the party is not sufficiently appealing to disaffected non-urban working class households.
  • This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • I think retreat and a hard pivot to the economy is the best move, but Obama will have to throw some red meat to the liberal base on that issue too… which will only serve to disaffect more in the center and the working class type Ds. Neither Reid nor Pelosi have the Votes to do Anything Else on ObamaCare | RedState
  • But disaffection over the city's infrastructure is not confined to the technology companies.
  • And there was I cocking behind a yadvocate that liked the business as little as myself, for it was fair ruin to the pair of us-a black mark, DISAFFECTED, branded on our hurdies, like folk's names upon their kye! David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
  • This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • Losing these families is the normal wear and tear of school life - although I would not pretend that we have not disaffected some people along the way.
  • The desire of these heroin addicts for chemically induced oblivion is made comprehensible by the sordid, disaffecting environment in which they live.
  • The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
  • They wandered past the sandwich shop, a raggle-taggle band of urban warriors, uniformed and disaffected, disillusioned, disowned.
  • Disaffected from school, he was getting into trouble for defiance and misbehavior in and out of school.
  • There is a high level of disaffection and boredom with an approach to learning which deletes joy, creativity and engagement from the process.
  • The politician tried to disaffect every major voting bloc.
  • Yet by refusing to cede her role as a Hillary surrogate, and tirelessly fanning the fames of party disunity, she helped keep media attention on the myth that there were legions of disaffected Hillary voters whose allegiance was available for harvest by any candidate in a pantsuit. Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama
  • The notion that once enactment is forced, the public will suddenly embrace health-care reform could not be further from the truth — and is likely to become a rallying cry for disaffected Republicans, independents and, yes, Democrats. Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular
  • Henry McLeish also promised to address the deep disaffection among Labour backbenchers exposed by his snap election last weekend.
  • The alibi at Westminster, in such situations, is that a disaffected member must stay, to represent his constituents.
  • But how far should we go to smuggle hard subjects into the minds of disaffected youth?
  • In key races, in battleground states that Obama won easily in 2008, he has been the point person for re-engaging the disaffected base, particularly in urban areas. Obama makes closing arguments before Election Day
  • If you do this not only to people who may or may not be guilty, but to a whole community, how can you not expect this action to radicalize and disaffect that community?
  • As the British people are made ever more aware of the impotence of our Parliament and Government to produce solutions appropriate to them (and desired by them) rather than to the goat farmers of Cyprus, because of the extent to which it has handed power over, lock, stock and barrel to the EU, then will come a time of growing disaffection from the European racket. Legitimacy Is The Treaty's Achilles Heel
  • Dissent may have challenged nationalism, but the presence of neutrals, the disaffected, and Tories never completely superseded the wider community of interests.
  • Even disaffected peers like the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftesbury used this chamber to voice much of their dissatisfaction.
  • Small wonder that our youth are disaffected. Times, Sunday Times
  • But since then the group has failed to attract the number of disaffected provisionals it had hoped.
  • The soldiers were disaffected toward the government.
  • Since his elevation, he has resorted to cheap populism in an effort to win back disaffected working class voters.
  • The party needs to take steps to attract disaffected voters.
  • Likewise, democracy empowers disaffected minorities to speak out and assert themselves along ethnic, religious, or tribal lines.
  • clannish" tendencies, have a certain democratic bias as well (chiefly, perhaps, evidenced and fostered by their religious organization); and the Irish, disaffected as they are towards England having so numerous and so close ties, through the emigration movement, with the United The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
  • American Splendor has, in its sarky and diffident way, some pretty serious things to say about the disaffected and the disenfranchised in American society, alienated from their jobs and their lives.
  • He has shown a deft touch in appealing to young, disaffected and floating voters disgusted with the political class. Times, Sunday Times
  • While he may come across as disaffected and aloof off stage, he and his band are a powerhouse on stage, and have crafted several sensational albums of anthemic songs.
  • When candles are brought into the tent at night, the servant wishes the company a good evening: he says "_M'sah elkhere_," the literal meaning of which is "_Good be with you this evening_;" which salutation it is courteous to return, even to a slave; and if any one, however great his rank, were not to return it, he would be considered a bad muselman, a disaffected and inhospitable barbarian. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
  • There is also the minority of highly disaffected young men who want to control their patches.
  • The nearby army camp, which fell on Friday, was a hotbed of disaffection in mutinies in 1996 and 1997.
  • The project was fraught with extreme risk, but General Gatacre, though fully aware that he was without the necessary reinforcements to make good a continuous advance, resolved to accept the hazard for the sake of the chance of success, and for the sake of the moral effect such success might make in a district weevilled with disaffection. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
  • It was the disaffected young westerners moving into the endless possibilities of the East. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of those who absented themselves, he said that many in their second year of secondary school felt disaffected by the education system.
  • Consumers are angry and suspicious, many health care workers are frustrated and disaffected.
  • Over in Japan, FAUST is considered a "mook" - that's a magazine and a book - speaking to the disaffected otaku culture, with a mix of cutting-edge fiction and manga. Bookgasm
  • Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
  • In the same 1790 report Hamilton reminded Congress that merchants, naturally, paid import duties, and that since merchants had always been the class most committed to American nationhood, taxing them further would be onerous and disaffecting; hence the need for a new tax not on imports but on a domestic product. Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – December – 15
  • The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
  • Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
  • His raw, blunt style appeals to the disaffected, the outcast, the romantic, the loner and the apolitical, and it always will.
  • There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
  • the widespread disaffection of the troops
  • In turn, voters become disaffected, with many seeing participation in the political process as meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suddenly, he was appealing not only to environmentalist Greens and anomic "disaffecteds" -- two groups that helped him score upsets in Maine and Colorado -- but to a broad swatch of America. The Method In His Madness
  • Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
  • These consequences of unprecedented growth in population undoubtedly played a part in the general malaise out of which disaffection grew.
  • What crossgrained fiend has at once inspired you with what I suppose you wish me to call politic doubts and scruples of conscience, but which I can only regard as symptoms of fear and disaffection? Saint Ronan's Well
  • His approach earned considerable funds for the school but disaffected most of the staff, who hated the idea of advertising dominating aesthetics.
  • The problem is the disengaged and disaffected women, especially single women, who say neither candidate speaks to their lives.
  • No, it's not an uprising of disaffected yoof, but, predictably, an artwork. Times, Sunday Times
  • There have also been scandals surrounding disaffected agents.
  • The autotelic text is a game of symbols, an artifice of ironic detachment, ludic or cynical, embodying an intellectual delight in the game for its own sake or an emotional disaffection in the absence of certainty. Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
  • He said dealing with disaffected youth was also a priority.
  • Populace's disaffection, directly relates the society the harmony and the stability.
  • Disaffected from school, he was getting into trouble for defiance and misbehavior in and out of school.
  • Still, there are plenty of disaffected people turning to jazz.
  • It was an hour long comedy/drama about a smart, disaffected, sarcastic girl in her early twenties who had graduated from Brown University and, completely unmotivated, worked in a gift shop at Niagara Falls.
  • It is also easy to understand why residents are disaffected.
  • Whatever has disaffected a substantial section of the support has mystified the manager and has clearly unsettled some of his players.
  • Ferguson's departure ago must be seen as the key catalyst for Rangers' slide since and it has subsequently disaffected other senior players such as Moore.
  • The entire kitchen sink has been thrown in, and for this and other reasons departments of English have generally become cesspools of diffusion, disaffection, and resentment.
  • There have been rumblings of discontent among national further education unions about what some characterise as the ‘dumping’ of disaffected school kids in colleges.
  • Bentham scorned the French Revolution and the very idea of “rights,” but he shared its disaffection with the old social order and advanced his own equali - tarian doctrine with his principle that, in planning reform on utilitarian lines, each should count for one and none for more than one. EQUALITY
  • But while it may not breach broadcasting regulations, it may breach the law against sedition, as it incites disaffection against the crown.
  • The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of disaffected teenagers.
  • What is it that is disaffecting them?
  • Eddie has been instrumental in working with disaffected young people in the area, inspiring pride in the local community.
  • The government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.
  • Illicit experiences may have been so disillusioning, owing to the disaffecting nature of the consorts, that an attitude of pessimism and misanthropy or misogyny is built up. Applied Eugenics
  • Processions aroused particular ire among republicans, but disaffected the faithful who regarded this as an insensitive attack upon tradition.
  • Margo, the other day I wrote to you about being a disaffected Australian.
  • This disaffection is partly due to the video invasion, or to the bureaucratization of channels who’ve become less and less creative, but that’s not the main thing. Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun
  • The fact that the government itself now appears to have endorsed this view is unlikely to challenge public disaffection from the political process.
  • The streets of London thronged with disaffected and disgruntled youth. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
  • Skinny, pasty-faced and dressed from head to toe in black complete with woolly hat rammed down on his head, Hamlet is the epitome of a disaffected philosophy student.
  • If you want to reach the disaffected youths who take to the streets to heave bricks at the police, you need to have a dialogue.
  • honeycombed" with disaffection with respect to the same issues that a trade union could have addressed. Undefined
  • One nationalist observer noted that Judge Jones ‘has given great disaffection… [and] has brought down severe animadversion on himself.’
  • However, disaffection over this issue was dwarfed by a scandal which emerged in the 1990's.
  • Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
  • Scotland being again rescued from the vengeance of her implacable foe, the disaffected lords in the citadel affected to spurn at her preservation, declaring to the regent that they would rather bear the yoke of the veriest tyrant in the world, than owe a moment of freedom to the man who (they pretended to believe) had conspired against their lives. The Scottish Chiefs
  • The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
  • This social unrest was compounded by the evangelical revival, which although it later became a conservative force that protected Britain from radical political change, was at this point profoundly disturbing as it uncovered and stimulated disaffection from the Established Church. _The Sceptic_: A Poem For Its Time?
  • Harper's not going to alienate the social conservatives of any other group of disaffected voters.
  • Such negativity intensified the ‘disillusion and disaffection of a large part of the electorate,’ he said.
  • Here, with a cohort of equally disaffected friends, he indulges in some minor delinquency and dreams of the day when he will escape to the big city. Times, Sunday Times
  • And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but imbitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
  • You might find moments of optimism hidden among Tweedy's disaffected, disconnected lyrics.
  • It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments.
  • There is also little sign of co - ordination among different disaffected groups.
  • The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
  • Non-violent, collective protest has become the weapon of choice for the disaffected across the former Soviet bloc.
  • The disaffected Tories cheered when Taylor lost - expecting that Jones would be a one term MP and that they would get their (caucasian) candidate back into the seat in 1997 ... Army Rumour Service
  • The government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.
  • I being in such a position in the colony, and considering the fact that Madam Cavendish and Catherine were staunch loyalists, and would have sent all their tobacco to the bottom of the salt sea had the king so ordained, and regarded all disaffection from the royal will as a deadly sin against God and the Church, as well as the throne, and knowing the danger which Mary Cavendish ran, I was in a sore quandary. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • It is, rather, the latest stage of a nagging public disaffection with the EU as a political, economic and social project.
  • It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence.
  • The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
  • Like the swarms of people who flock to Web sites devoted to the study of genealogy, company owners who fall into their life's work through happenstance or inheritance may feel rootless, even disaffected.
  • The stress of the early performances is replaced by a semipermanent state of crabby disaffection. Times, Sunday Times
  • A discourse, in which the fundamental topic was thus conscientiously omitted, was not likely, with all its concinnities, to make much impression upon the disaffected knights, or to exert a soothing influence upon the people. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
  • The Left had turned from the politics of agency to a disaffected "spectatorial" politics which placed progressives outside the realm and the expectations of practical reform. Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument
  • Then, disappointment and disaffection characterised the response of many.
  • Blood, ironically playing the part of a sheriff who persecutes the disaffected Vietnam vet played by Sylvester Stallone. ARTHUR REX CRANE
  • Currently, disaffected pupils can drop two subjects to spend up to a day a week in the workplace.
  • The party needs to take steps to attract disaffected voters.
  • Point to this program, and a bevy of bugbears, from disaffected employees to muckraking journalists, will disappear.
  • There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
  • As has been the case in so many countries, basketball can be a good shelter for unsure and disaffected youth, helping them to keep fit. Times, Sunday Times
  • The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
  • He declared that the citizens of Boston ‘were disaffected to the Laws of the Land’ and were in a state of ‘open Rebellion, Disobedience, and Disloyalty,’ and that the clergy were foremost in ‘oppugning the Authority of the Laws of the Land.’
  • I worry that if people are disaffected with the Church, they are less likely to increase their spend on luxury deliveries. Times, Sunday Times
  • His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age. Jura Duty
  • It has a particular resonance among the disaffected middle classes, who have become increasingly anxious and insecure as a result of wider social and political shifts over the past decade.
  • The disaffection has blossomed into outright hostility to the euro.
  • For the Earls of Southampton and Essex and for many literate English Protestants, Venice was the model of republican government, the alternative to monarchy for disaffected subjects of Elizabeth.

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