133 adjectives to describe disappointment

There was the beginning of a log in the ensign's handwriting, which Ives had found with high excitement and read with bitter disappointment.

Eight o'clock came without his appearing, after which, with keen disappointment, Lenore gave up expecting him that night.

" "It's a cruel disappointment," she said, rising and holding the back of the chair as she tilted it toward the bed.

Zeppelins are a sad disappointment; but if any address on the War is being delivered to-night by a German professor, there can be no doubt that it deals with submarines, and treats them as the saviours of the Fatherland.

When she looked back upon him he waved his hand to her as if bidding her God-speed, and the lady by her side looked back too and waved her hand, and the little Pilgrim felt tears of happiness come to her eyes; for she had been wondering with a little disappointment to see that the people in the city, except those who were strangers, were chiefly alone, and not like those in the old world where the husband and wife go together.

The first day's battle, though resulting in a terrible loss of Union troops, was in reality a severe disappointment to the rebel leaders.

To Little Arcady this was a grievous disappointment.

"Then," said Smith, with evident disappointment, "I must use the hateful name of Melville for the wedding, and afterward abandon it for as long as possible.

The only thing which rejoices me now is the thought of his blank disappointment when he gets the news from the Commissary of Police.

Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments.

It was in these circumstances that the decision to undertake the operation was made, and when it became necessary to abandon it owing to the inability of the Army to co-operate the intense disappointment felt by all those who had worked so hard to ensure its success can be realized.

It had been a sore disappointment to them, as year after year went by, to see that there seemed no likelihood of his becoming Katie's husband.

They said that Bennett had taken great pains to give me a splendid reception, that the party had waited till nine o'clock for me, and that my non-arrival caused considerable disappointment.

The serpent was actually being stuffed when a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin blew it into infinitesimal smithereens, to the profound disappointment of the Professor and my daughter Anna, who has never been quite the same woman since.

"Lee's countenance," he adds, "did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance," but preserved the utmost placidity and cheerfulness.

But underneath her temporary disappointment she felt as light and glad as a bird in springtime.

But because many of their relations are ofttimes persons of an inferior condition; and who (either by imprudent counsellors, or else out of a tickling conceit of their sons being, forsooth, a University Scholar) have purposely omitted all other opportunities of a livelihood; to return such, would seem a very sharp and severe disappointment.

It will be a dreadful disappointment to her.'

The station master, occupying a position of vantage in front of the shed which enclosed the booking office, looked up and down the lifeless row of closed and streaming windows, with an expectancy dulled by daily disappointment, for the passengers who seldom alighted.

An expression of acute disappointment passed over his features; his eyes did not find what they sought.

Then came the first interview, and his sudden disappointment, which he now blushed to recollect.

But this is sufficient to account for the universal longing, whether definite or indefinite, and the consequent universal disappointment.

We hear of no alteration of his circumstances until we reach the Sixth Eclogue, in which the progress and utter disappointment of his suit are distinctly and bitterly complained of.

To an actor a cold, an indigestion, or a headache is doubtless an annoyance; but to a leading singer such an accident almost always means the impossibility of appearing at all, with serious loss of money to the artist, and grave disappointment to the public.

The sun was setting, the emblem of the extinction of their royalty, as they ascended the stairs to find such rest as they might, and to ponder in privacy for this one night over their fatal disappointment, and their still more fatal future.

133 adjectives to describe  disappointment