disaffected
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Disaffected
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —vb | |
| (tr; often passive) to cause to lose loyalty or affection; alienate | |
| disaf'fectedly | |
| —adv | |
| disaf'fectedness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Even a decade of growth has left plenty of poor and disaffected people.
Every year the authorities worry that the disaffected will use the session as a pretext to air grievances.
All countries have some disaffected folk, of course.
Opposition politicians, newspaper columnists and a disaffected former foreign minister are beginning to find their voice.
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