You know, Susan, as well as I do, the character attached to those who put their friends to the expense of educating them for the Church, who raise their hopes and their ambition, and afterwards disappoint them.
I could bear to disappoint father, mother, and all; but the thought of giving you up for ever is terrible.
It was not that she saw in the little child any fitness for this holy office, but because she wanted a clergyman in the family, and she often reminded him that he must not disappoint her.
You would not, certainly, so cruelly disappoint a noble man that has set his whole faith on you.
It was a relief to him to feel--if his next questions did nothing else--that they would disappoint Mrs. Galilee.
Whatever pains I may have taken todisappoint you, it is quite likely that we may be again indebted to each other on this occasion.
Let us then be concerned to falsify their predictions and disappoint their enmity by "walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
He might disappoint the expectations that I had fixed on him, or he might refuse to help me, or (like my uncle Starkweather) he might think I had taken leave of my senses.
And you may be sure I won't disappoint ye by biding away, Mr. Wildeve.
But when I consider the usual nature of the drag which causes men of promise to disappoint the world I feel uneasy.
Mr. Lincoln did not like to entirely disappoint the audience, as the announcement had been publicly made, and had determined to fulfil his acceptance.
Should the poet assign the true cause, and call them the mere painting or coinage of the brain, he would disappoint his own end, and destroy the being he had raised.
To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.
But I had made up my mind not to disappoint him nor his dear young wife.
The face that was thus revealed was certainly not one to disappoint the most sanguine expectations.
Marion was a more complex problem; but Marion did not know the world, and it was simple enough to disappoint her probable anticipation that the Marquise would at once monopolize Philip.
You may disappoint her wishes, contradict her opinions, insult her understanding, pain her heart, ay, even cross her caprices!
He had agreed to deliver the goods by a certain day, his character for honest business was at stake and he wasn't going to disappoint his customers.
You would not desire me, I feel sure, to disappoint the chapel members who will be waiting presently for their rehearsal.
She hated to disappoint his expectations, which she had ignorantly aroused.
She did not like to disappoint him, even temporarily, and she also felt somewhat foolish because she had so confidently assumed that it would be a simple matter to set the Clark inheritance right.
Still it is a matter of common experience that pleasures which have been intensely desired are often found to disappoint expectation.
However, not to disappoint you, I will tell you a few of them.
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
Dorothy, I would not have believed it possible for you so willfully to disappoint me.
Now all I feel is a wish to be through so I can hurry home to dear Aunt Betty who must need me dreadfully, or she'd never disappoint us like this.
Without a further glance at the man, he slipped out into the court-yard and turned towards the main gate.
But from this consideration Loder, by his sharp consciousness of personal difficulties, was given immunity.
Sure," replied the Toyman, who never liked to disappoint little boys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disappoint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
