How to Use disaffected in a Sentence

disaffected

adjective

• The troops had become disaffected.
• Both political parties are looking for ways to regain the trust of disaffected voters.
• No disaffected youth in long hair and plaid; Bell was Black, all day long.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 8 June 2021
• In 1996, a disaffected teen named Alex is given the board game by his father, who found it on a beach.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 July 2019
• Deadpan, eye-rolling teen Daria (voiced by Tracy Grandstaff) was a stand-in for the disaffected youth of the late 1990s.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2021
• For all his claims of not being part of the establishment, in the eyes of France’s disaffected youth, Macron isn’t an agent of change.
  — Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The question is not whether but where and when will the next disaffected shooter attack?
  — Bill Monning, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• Reynolds plays a disaffected tech billionaire who decides he's had enough of evil in the world.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2019
• In came Matt Pinfield, who, along with the station, took about a year to win back some disaffected Fogheads.
  — Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• Kyle Klein II, who plays the disaffected teen Dwayne, feels authentic and sings well.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
• Cho has brought her plays about disaffected youth to Long Wharf before.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Instead of crying about it, the disaffected mob wives get busy.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, Arizona Republic, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
• The 45-year-old Remy Auberjonois might seem old to play the disaffected young Tom, but as Williams notes, this a memory play.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2019
• Moods For one thing, James himself was disaffected and petulant before the big trades.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Van Hardenberg noted the large numbers of bored and disaffected programmers at the likes of Meta and Google who jumped ship at the height of the crypto bubble.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• The track is gauzy, made up of rudimentary synths, and Cottrill’s singing is disaffected.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• That’s the favorite dodge of my disaffected liberal pals these days.
  — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
• But the electorate there has also grown more disaffected.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
• Smith says the threat to Manchin is compounded by the number of West Virginians who feel disaffected from both parties.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
• Attributed to a disaffected pigolo who had been living high on the hog, the rumor has it that Miss Piggy is a puppet.
  — Brad Darrach, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• While some previous protests were the work of disaffected poets and intellectuals, the use of the internet spread the word across class, age and racial lines.
  — Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• Back then, her mission was to unite disaffected factions of the Democratic Party against Donald Trump, a goal that hasn't changed.
  — Malavika Kannan, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The following day, Macron launched the slogan as a new website, in an effort to persuade disaffected, high-skilled Americans to move to France.
  — Vivienne Walt / Paris, Time, 12 June 2017
• Their music first appealed to gay and lesbian youth, then spread to a much larger audience of disaffected teens.
  — David Junk, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Just two albums into her career, the 21-year-old New Zealander and queen of disaffected pop sure seems to have an effect on people — most of them, anyway.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Bernstein juxtaposes a Street Chorus of disaffected people (the jeans and T-shirt crowd) with a formal chorus in robes and a boys’ choir.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2018
• So, not exactly high times on the open road for the beloved American brand, but the fact that much of its woes stem from Trump, a fellow symbol of the disaffected white working class, seems a touch ironic.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 June 2018
• Tribes that have had disaffected members at the merge have frequently been undone by those flippers.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• America needs a movement of disaffected truckers just like the one in Canada.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• One thing's for sure — suburban kids don't appear to be getting any less disaffected.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2017

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