Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: disappoint
IPA transcription: [d,ɪsəp'ɔɪnt]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disappoint, let_down
    Meaning: fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
Usage examples
  • Don't disappoint.
  • "Shocked to disappoint you, I am sure; but the fact is, I have done."
  • The wealth might disappoint, Myself a poorer prove Than this great purchaser suspect, The daily own of Love
  • Of course, the original agreement was that he must be good. But he TRIED to be good . . . and I hadn't the heart to disappoint him."
  • If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted, hunted so, to see, And could not bear to shut until They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
  • Mary's mother knew that the harsh winds had killed the flowers before their time, but she did not like to disappoint her darling, so she only said, with a sigh,
  • She did not disappoint my glowing anticipations, but became quite a celebrity in her way--by dancing the polka to slow music on a pine-board ball-room constructed for the purpose.
  • But if tribulation and persecution arise, that is to say, if anything arises to vex or thwart or disappoint them with their church, they incontinently pull up their roots and their religion with it, and transplant both to any other church that for the time better pleases them, or to no church at all.