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as in disappointment
the emotion felt when one's expectations are not met
the museum exhibit was just so-so, and we returned home with a vague sense of letdown
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as in to disappoint
to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of
with my poor performance I really felt that I had let my teammates down
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Recent Examples of letdown
Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Chloe Kim's Olympic silver shouldn't feel like a letdown.
—Alex Connor, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Instead, Duke took over and never let down.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The keenness of my letdown was dismaying.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Chloe Kim's Olympic silver shouldn't feel like a letdown.
—Alex Connor, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
The outlook let down investors who had hoped to see a bigger payoff from artificial intelligence spending.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Instead, Duke took over and never let down.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for letdown
Noun
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Now the Sharks are hoping other Olympians, Sweden’s Alex Wennberg, Switzerland’s Philipp Kurashev, and Slovakia’s Pavol Regenda, can use the pressure of an Olympic tournament – and the disappointment that came with it — to their benefit as their playoff chase resumes.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Family members of a 9-year-old boy critically injured in a hit-and-run crash in Chester, Pennsylvania, are expressing their disappointment at the sentencing of the driver responsible.—
Madeleine Wright,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The 30-year-old said that the whirlwind experience — being traded, shaving his bushy beard, disappointing his new team and getting demoted in less than a week’s time — taught him a lot about himself.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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And needless to say, the preview night did not disappoint.—
Savannah Hanoum,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2026
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There are different reasons a person might want to scream, whether they have been told to stay silent about abuse experienced as a child, or have been dismissed or ignored as an adult, or are struggling with a political landscape that has exacerbated feelings of fear, anger and frustration.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Hudson described the frustration of being pigeonholed by an industry that struggled to see her outside the genre.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2026
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So many friends and colleagues have reached out through emails and texts to check in, and share their dismay over what is happening.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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That shock and dismay was even more heavy for Matkom because the Fifth Street School was among his favorite developments.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Letdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letdown. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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