a) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
Choking back his disappointment after his own teams splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "Ive got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side." — Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
b) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it. — Cabinet, Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990
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