Definition of disaffect
: to alienate the affection or loyalty of;
also
: to fill with discontent and unrest
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Examples of disaffect in a Sentence
the troops were disaffected by the extension of their tours of duty
Recent Examples of disaffect from the Web
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Bryn Mawr has been picking up clients disaffected by larger banks.
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Simon’s been disaffected with Negan’s leadership for a while now.
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The two soon gravitated to Club 57 where Ms. Magnuson and a crew of kindredly disaffected School of Visual Arts graduates were already holding court.
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There’s nostalgia there in part because so many people have been disaffected by the [Sirleaf] regime.
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If the Democrats were to nominate a leftist in the mold of Bernie Sanders, Kasich and Hickenlooper would create a party for affluent people disaffected by Trump’s demagoguery but scared of Sanders’s socialism.
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Some of the MILF’s younger members are said to be disaffected with its ageing leadership.
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Encouraged by the Islamic State’s setbacks in Iraq and Syria, al-Qaeda is making a play for the allegiance of the Islamic State’s disaffected followers as well as legions of sympathizers around the world, analysts say.
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Much has been made of Trump’s ties to prosperity gospel-preaching televangelists, and his own wealth and success as something to which disaffected working-class people might aspire, however irrationally.
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First Known Use of disaffect
1641
disaffect Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
appease, conciliate, disarm, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate;
Related Words
antagonize, embitter, envenom;
aggravate, anger, enrage, incense, inflame (also enflame), infuriate, madden, outrage, rankle, rile, roil;
break up, dissociate, disunite, divide, separate, sever, split, sunder, uncouple, unlink, unyoke;
Synonym Discussion of disaffect
estrange, alienate, disaffect mean to cause one to break a bond of affection or loyalty. estrange implies the development of indifference or hostility with consequent separation or divorcement.
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- his estranged wife
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- managed to alienate all his coworkers
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- troops disaffected by hunger
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