let down

But it was a bit of a let-down after getting all warmed up, you know.

After the hanging a temporary reaction took place--a let-down from the hectic, fevered agitations of preceding days.

It was a little let-down to this exalted condition that it had to come within the social bonds of their common every-day lives.

Were you so tired of a little useful work that ye maun greet a let-down with such early rising?

He had gone on hoping from day to day that Barker might not notice the "let-down" in her work, and now the blow had fallen.