disappointingly
Adverb
In a disappointing manner.
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I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam.
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The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
Adverb
in a disappointing manner
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the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary
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