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Definitions for disaffected
ˌdɪs əˈfɛk tɪddis·af·fect·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebelliousadjective
discontented as toward authority
Wiktionary
disaffectedadjective
Alienated or estranged, often with hostile effect; rebellious, resentful; disloyal.
disaffectedadjective
Affected with disease.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Disaffectedpart. adj.
Not disposed to zeal or affection. Usually applied to those who are enemies to the government.
Etymology: from disaffect.
By denying civil worship to the emperor’s statues, which the custom then was to give, they were proceeded against as disaffected to the emperor. Edward Stillingfleet, Def. of Dis. on Ro. Idol.
Wikipedia
Disaffected
Disaffected is the eighth album by Piano Magic.
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disaffected
Disaffected refers to a person or group that is dissatisfied, resentful or rebellious, typically towards an authority, institution, or a specific situation, often as the result of feeling estranged or alienated.
Webster Dictionary
Disaffected
of Disaffect
Disaffectedadjective
alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal
Wikidata
Disaffected
Disaffected is the eighth album by Piano Magic.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of disaffected in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of disaffected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of disaffected in a Sentence
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
The only hope Republican Congressional candidates have is that, as we get close to the election, Donald Trump is able to win back some of those disaffected Republicans.
I began to see it in our cities with the Occupy Wall Street movement, during economic downturns, you began to see disaffected people targeting corporations as their enemy. And you had weak Democrat leaders in cities putting up with it because this rhetoric was at the fringes of the…Democratic Party and they didn't want to turn off their voters, supposedly.
There's no question that they use anything that they can against us, they use anything that they can possibly get their hands on to try to make their case and particularly to go after the disaffected people of the world, and what we need to be thinking about is how do we give them a different message -- disaffected ones -- so that they won't be so attracted to those kinds of messages?
The fact that it affects children really upset people, most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw.
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