How to Use disaffect in a Sentence

disaffect

verb
  • Bryn Mawr has been picking up clients disaffected by larger banks.
    Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • And for the seasonally disaffected among us, that glorious big bang can’t come soon enough.
    Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • There’s nostalgia there in part because so many people have been disaffected by the [Sirleaf] regime.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Simon’s been disaffected with Negan’s leadership for a while now.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • One danger for the prime minister is that on election day conservative voters disaffected by the looming corruption charges could abandon him for other right-wing parties, or for an opposition bloc.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2019
  • These techniques resonate with a generation disaffected by conventional politics.
    Jill Stewart, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2004
  • In their run to the last four, England re-engaged with a fanbase disaffected by decades of failure at international tournaments, most notably in a humiliating exit to Iceland at Euro 2016.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • Many militants are disaffected by poverty and unemployment, and some have reportedly traveled to regional countries, including Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia, for religious or military training, according to a study released last month in Maputo.
    Washington Post, 11 June 2018

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