disaffection

[ US /ˌdɪsəˈfɛkʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsɐfˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the feeling of being alienated from other people
  2. disloyalty to the government or to established authority
    the widespread disaffection of the troops
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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.
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