disaffected
The party has been badly hit by disaffection among its own voters.
Housing and energy crises have only deepened public disaffection.
Children may miss lessons through boredom or complete disaffection with school.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sadness and regret
aw
be/weigh on your conscienceidiom
bitter
black dog
breastbeating
cry
feel badidiom
gloominess
glumness
groan
guilt
guilt complex
melancholia
prick someone's conscienceidiom
regretful
regretfully
remorse
remorseful
repentant
wretchedness

Examples of disaffection

disaffection
Not surprisingly, the results were disaffection, poor attendance and ultimately a collapse of the organization.
Public manifestations of disaffection with the law, such as that which surrounded the forgery laws, underpinned their argument and facilitated its success.
The drafting of politicians and academics into the government tends to offer the regime a modicum of legitimacy, thereby reducing any deep cynicism and disaffection.
Citizens are dependent on some form of interaction with state actors in the context of their growing disaffection with politicians and political parties.
They suggest that the limited literature on older people's attitudes indicates that they share the disaffection of the wider population with politics and politicians.
Relocation, even if it is multiple and frequent cannot be taken as a sign of disaffection or exclusion.
What is the relationship between these advantaged youths' attitudes of disaffection, the 40 percent poverty rate, sharply declining voter turnout, and conservatives' victories over reformists?
Rather than substituting bland words that suited the original music, composer and librettist provided a sign of their disaffection.
Unfortunately, taking such courses can be an intimidating experience for some students, with many reporting severe difficulties, culminating in underachievement and disaffection.
As a result, rumour became associated in the minds of the authorities with disaffection, the word itself implying murmurings of discontent.
Such questions need to be asked to achieve optimum musical development and avoid early disaffection of pupils who perceive themselves as unmusical.
When applied to young people, this version often emerges as a discourse of disaffection.
Disaffection characterised as rejection of the values and cultures of dominant institutions closes off extensive possibilities for social participation.
The secular left, already neutralized by two decades of marginalization, was unable to provide the leadership to shape and transform such disaffection.
Artists' increasing confrontations with these industrial systems deepened their disaffection and increased their feeling of marginalization.
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