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to someone's disappointment
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If something happens to someone's disappointment, they are unhappy because it did not happen as they hoped or expected:
To my disappointment, he decided to leave.
She discovered to her disappointment that she hadn't secured tickets in the ballot.
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disappointment
To his disappointment, the book sold only modestly.
To their disappointment, after years of trying, they had failed to conceive.
Much to the disappointment of the crowd, the band didn't play any of their early hits.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disappointing yourself and others
abjectly
anticlimactic
anticlimax
be cracked up to be somethingidiom
be one in the eye for someoneidiom
blow
break
bubble
disappointingly
disappointment
disenchantment
dishearten
disheartening
fail
let someone down
let the side downidiom
letdown
non-event
not all it's cracked up to beidiom
sick
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