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US
/ˌdɪsəˈfɛkʃən/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsɐfˈɛkʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsɐfˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
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disloyalty to the government or to established authority
the widespread disaffection of the troops
How To Use disaffection In A Sentence
- The government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.
- It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments.
- Such negativity intensified the ‘disillusion and disaffection of a large part of the electorate,’ he said.
- 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?
- However, disaffection over this issue was dwarfed by a scandal which emerged in the 1990's.
- One nationalist observer noted that Judge Jones ‘has given great disaffection… [and] has brought down severe animadversion on himself.’
- honeycombed" with disaffection with respect to the same issues that a trade union could have addressed. Undefined
- The fact that the government itself now appears to have endorsed this view is unlikely to challenge public disaffection from the political process.
- 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 government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.