disaffect
Example Sentences
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Say it's because you quite shamelessly made motions at others while you stood there, and did your best to disaffect men who hadn't the least desire to join in your trouble-making....
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
Gallatin warned him against the attempt that would be made to disaffect that district because none of the representatives whose seats had been vacated were residents of it.
From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by John Austin Stevens
And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but embitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
And these first glimpses of the happy lives of others seemed to disaffect me more than ever with my own.
From Richard Vandermarck by Miriam Coles Harris
The manner in which children's tastes are disregarded, their feelings ignored, and their instincts violated, is enough to disaffect one with childhood.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
