How To Use Disappointingly In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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In the event, her moneyspinning advice was disappointingly sensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies.
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What had felt so spirited and fresh back then feels disappointingly syrupy and cloying now.
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Disappointingly, I missed out on subnormal by two points.
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The twist with savings accounts is that sometimes it is the shiniest and best acccounts that slump disappointingly.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I scan the screen for imperfections: she looks pristinely, disappointingly fresh-faced.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Disappointingly, the exhibition omits Rauschenberg's portrait and still-life photography, which is richly illustrated in the catalogue.
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It even comes with a hefty chunk of lemon, in addition to the salt and vinegar [which was disappointingly run of the mill, with not the slightest suggestion of rose Perry vinegar or Caspian salt flakes].
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Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies.
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Competition for the young pound is hotting up despite the disappointingly slow start to the government's child trust fund scheme.
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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
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Disappointingly and puzzlingly, however, this is a one-off programme, not the start of a series.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the women's Nationals had only nine players and the men's draws for this event and the team selection tourneys have been disappointingly small as well.
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His approach to my book is disappointingly anti-intellectual.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Disappointingly the 220 cyclists wore helmets rather than busbies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
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Cronyn is an inimitable professional, but her Virginia is disappointingly virtuous and fleshless.
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Disappointingly, however, bones and other anatomical structures are impossible to see.
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So it's vaguely disappointing that I am probably suffering from a disappointingly vague malaise.
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When it does resurface, on the final page of the book, it short-changes the reader dramatically and disappointingly.
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But isn't it refreshing to be able to tell you about two clubs with a good news story - even though both are performing somewhere between disappointingly and dreadfully on the field?
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The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
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What had felt so spirited and fresh back then feels disappointingly syrupy and cloying now.
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City of York Ladies Hockey Club failed to baptise their new name with a win in the season's opening North League game as they disappointingly slipped 5-1 at home to Leyland.
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Disappointingly for him she snatched the pencil quickly before it could fall.
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Many dried herbs are also too often disappointingly old and anaemic.
Food Watch
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Progress is disappointingly slow.
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Yet for all its spectacle, including the climax, when Orpheus is all lit up as a constellation, the ballet's narrative element is undramatic and Bintley's love duets are disappointingly bland.
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Britain's number-one tennis player gave a disappointingly lacklustre performance.
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Connelly broke through again and slipped a clever pass for Lovenkrands, whose run took him past Sutton, but his angled shot was disappointingly wide.
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An England international, the Hull-born Liverpudlian, who began his career as an exciting youngster at Tottenham, then saw his Liverpool career peter out disappointingly.
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The day he sunbathed naked outside the kitchen window, I swear there was printing on the window that read "Objects may appear disappointingly smaller in direct sunlight.
Denise Vivaldo: Cut Your Turkey
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The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
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When I left the girls they disappointingly still seemed to be getting on well, happily sitting on the kerbside by the gutter.
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Can we make a charge for a European place, or will the season fizzle out disappointingly?
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A pink-flowered cosmos planted during the summer is at its best at the moment after spending the past few months developing bushy foliage with disappointingly few flowers.
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Everyone's favourite cheeky actor comes undone in a disappointingly miscast role in Channel 4's latest gritty urban drama.
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To the south-east of Koh Tao is Shark Island, named, rather disappointingly, because of the shape of a shark fin formed by the top of the island itself.
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The shoes will still be there if the world disappointingly backslides behind old battlelines.
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Disappointingly, even though you can at times detect a family likeness to its genius predecessors, The IT Crowd's opening gambit suggests it could be the runt of the litter.
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Also, slightly disappointingly, it diminishes the role of the grown-ups.
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For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy (which do happen, but are surely allowed too) disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script.
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the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary
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The show has come back a year after the first episode of the American version premiered in Canada - but disappointingly, with hardly any new fierceness.
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From Florence, however, a straight answer was not so easy to extract, since even the most well-brought-up 13-month-olds have disappointingly little in the way of cocktail party chit -chat.
London Fashion Week: VIPs fill No 10 – but MiniCams steal the show
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As the show drew to a close (after a disappointingly short 60 minutes) I was left wanting slightly more.
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Disappointingly, it was intimidatingly hip in the flesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
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As the show drew to a close (after a disappointingly short 60 minutes) I was left wanting slightly more.
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Many dried herbs are also too often disappointingly old and anaemic.
Food Watch
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And the famous shopfront cover design has disappointingly been replaced with something less iconic.
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Disappointingly, the survey reveals that random violence is increasing.
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Progress is disappointingly slow.
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When it does resurface, on the final page of the book, it short-changes the reader dramatically and disappointingly.
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Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs.
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To the south-east of Koh Tao is Shark Island, named, rather disappointingly, because of the shape of a shark fin formed by the top of the island itself.
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What I don't know is what subset of that audience likes said films to be humorless, witless and boring as well, but judging from all the praiseful reviews the film has received, it must be disappointingly large.
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As it is, today's share issue is disappointingly dilutive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Partly constructed of baggy fabric, it looks a little like a cross between a reptile and, disappointingly, a panto beanstalk.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the dry season, all life moves north, leaving the southern plains disappointingly bare and empty.
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It was a fitting finale to a disappointingly one-sided match.
Times, Sunday Times
