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US
/dɪsəˈpɔɪnɪŋɫi, dɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋɫi/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsɐpˈɔɪntɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsɐpˈɔɪntɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a disappointing manner
the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary
How To Use disappointingly In A Sentence
- There they all were, standing by the river, looking disappointingly ordinary in broad daylight, miming to whatever single they had out at the time - presumably for some Saturday morning kids' TV show.
- It was a load of disappointingly patronising guff about how "woman is closer to the rhythms of Earth" and stuff like that, and it predisposed me against him as a bit of a sanctimonious berk. This week's new singles
- In the event, her moneyspinning advice was disappointingly sensible. Times, Sunday Times
- Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies.
- What had felt so spirited and fresh back then feels disappointingly syrupy and cloying now.
- Disappointingly, I missed out on subnormal by two points.
- The twist with savings accounts is that sometimes it is the shiniest and best acccounts that slump disappointingly. Times, Sunday Times
- Eventually the fire fighters exit the building unheroically, no women strewn over any shoulders, not even a scared kitty reunited with joyful owners, and even more disappointingly, none drop trou or so much as remove a shirt to reveal achingly chiselled pecs and a waxed-smooth toned torso as those calendars would have you believe. Archive 2008-10-01
- I scan the screen for imperfections: she looks pristinely, disappointingly fresh-faced. Times, Sunday Times
- This means that what might have been a searing account of the emotional damage sustained by those caught up in sectarian violence comes across as disappointingly bland. Times, Sunday Times