disappointments

plural of disappointment
as in letdowns
something that disappoints after all the publicity and high expectations, the sequel to the movie blockbuster was a huge disappointment

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Recent Examples of disappointments The legislative session also brought some disappointments for some community groups, such as Newsom’s decision to veto SB 954. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 This director who’s had three disappointments in a row is the person to invest in? — Chris Lee, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026 There will be early disappointments, like the rough start the Dolphins (0-2) got off to in road losses to the Las Vegas Raiders and San Francisco 49ers. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 Two weeks into this season, the Bucks are one of the NFL's biggest disappointments. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Oakley and Reid lean so heavily into Elinor and Marianne’s crushing disappointments and the forces holding them back in a period of vast gender inequity, that their sorrows shove the characters’ more captivating qualities to the side. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026 There were five five-star QBs in that class, of which only one, Texas’s Arch Manning, remains at his original school, and two, Jackson Arnold and Malachi Nelson, have been major disappointments. — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Earnings disappointments led to our exits from Procter & Gamble and Dover . — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026 This year, the Sky’s biggest investments were also their greatest disappointments. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappointments
Noun
  • Special teams and defensive units have experienced crippling letdowns.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Braves third baseman Austin Riley, maddened by a campaign littered with letdowns, got his rewrite.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The series is made to weave a nice suit for losers who don’t usually get one.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In many of life’s winner-loser outcomes, the fate of the losers is all but inevitable, granted the values, resources and determination of the winners.
    — James Coffin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The installation at the military’s oldest active test base would help shield critical defense operations from wider grid failures.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The familiar scent of grilling merguez wafted through the air as Violette began to enumerate the system’s failures.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Disappointments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappointments. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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