Synonyms for disappointments
dis·ap·point·ments

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1. List of paraphrases for "disappointments":

   frustrations, deceptions

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1. Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002:

   If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

2. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

   I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

3. Susan Jacoby:

   Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

4. Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver:

   Implementation is key, but in the mean time, events keep intervening, and there are serial disappointments, and what (International Monetary Fund Managing Director) Christine Lagarde has called 'the new mediocre' is something that we seem to be confronting.

5. Kay Dickersin:

   The proposals take important steps toward greater transparency, but there are also disappointments.