Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resentful and rebellious, especially against authority.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly, as one displeased with the actions of a superior, a government, or a party.
- Morbid; diseased.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disaffect . - adjective
Alienated orestranged , often withhostile effect;rebellious ,resentful ;disloyal . - adjective obsolete Affected with
disease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective discontented as toward authority
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Examples
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And I think that -- the experience I've had certainly -- is that there are people that are involved in this movement [who] came out of -- not what I call a disaffected population but a group of people who heretofore worked every day, paid their taxes, sent their kids to school, went to church and did it all over again the next week.
Mayhill Fowler: Tea Party Talk: Racism, Palin, and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party 2010
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And I think that -- the experience I've had certainly -- is that there are people that are involved in this movement [who] came out of -- not what I call a disaffected population but a group of people who heretofore worked every day, paid their taxes, sent their kids to school, went to church and did it all over again the next week.
Mayhill Fowler: Tea Party Talk: Racism, Palin, and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party 2010
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Of course, it is worrying that certain disaffected young people — Muslims and converts to Islam — express their alienation and rejection through Islamic extremism and that a tiny minority actually want to blow themselves and others up, just as it is terrible that young people go on shooting sprees in schools.
The Case for Open Immigration: A Q&A With Philippe Legrain - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Of course, it is worrying that certain disaffected young people — Muslims and converts to Islam — express their alienation and rejection through Islamic extremism and that a tiny minority actually want to blow themselves and others up, just as it is terrible that young people go on shooting sprees in schools.
The Case for Open Immigration: A Q&A With Philippe Legrain - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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FX's hard-hitting boxing drama costars Pablo Schreiber — best known as disaffected dock worker Nick Sobotka from Season 2 of HBO's inner-city masterpiece — as Johnny Leary, the ethically shady manager of Holt McCallany's "Lights" Leary.
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Those so-called disaffected "Democrats" and neo-cons who keep saying "I don't trust Obama" (strain at a gnat) but then swallow, whole, the hypocrisy and dirt-bag-ethics of John McCain (swallow a camel) are really little more than doctrinaire reactionaries anyway, who simply would hate any Demcrat, no matter who it is: Hillary, Obama or whoever.
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I personally am 31, a mite too old to be called disaffected youth.
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McCain advisers also say he must win a number of so - called disaffected Democrats.
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But they love those so-called disaffected Clinton Democratic votes even more. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Why the GOP has a crush on Hillary 2008
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But they love those so-called disaffected Clinton Democratic votes even more.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Why the GOP has a crush on Hillary 2008
mohitanand commented on the word disaffected
discontented as toward authority
After watching his superior take rations from the soldiers, he quickly became disaffected and rebelled.
October 19, 2016