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disappoint

[dis-uh-point] / ˌdɪs əˈpɔɪnt /


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Some — including him — wore shirts with a quote across the front: “Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them.”

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

As you read this, the eternal time clock tracking the hours until Those Whom One Should Not Disappoint arrive at your front door for Thanksgiving Day Dinner is counting down.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

Ozge Samanci’s comics memoir of growing up in Turkey Dare to Disappoint is filled with such unexpected memories.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2016

Disappoint and off you go to growth purgatory, maybe never to return.  Amazon.com keeps renewing itself, but Cisco Systems got too big and faces declining operating profit margins so they shot Cisco at sunrise.

From Forbes • Apr. 19, 2011

Disappoint not then, I beseech you, for an hundred persons' sakes, as well as for mine, that uncle and that mother, whose displeasure I have heard you so often deplore.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel




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