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
  • Instead of crying about it, the disaffected mob wives get busy.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, Arizona Republic, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The question is not whether but where and when will the next disaffected shooter attack?
    — Bill Monning, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Cho has brought her plays about disaffected youth to Long Wharf before.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • That’s the favorite dodge of my disaffected liberal pals these days.
    — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Both will need to court at least some of the disaffected voters who picked Pratt in the primary.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • Trump's rise among the disaffected is more complicated than race.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • One thing's for sure — suburban kids don't appear to be getting any less disaffected.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2017
  • Fight Club starred Norton as an unnamed man who can't sleep and has become disaffected and lost.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The poll found some support for Biden among disaffected liberals.
    — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Moods For one thing, James himself was disaffected and petulant before the big trades.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The track is gauzy, made up of rudimentary synths, and Cottrill’s singing is disaffected.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • His Bobby is not merely passive but disaffected to the point of depression.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • America needs a movement of disaffected truckers just like the one in Canada.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • This tension has inhibited his ability to flip disaffected elites against the regime.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That, plus votes from some disaffected anti-Rispone Republicans, would be enough for him.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Maybe that was a way of calming his nerves, but the upshot is to give him a disaffected air that’s almost Lou Reed adjacent.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Platner told Semafor that and said his party needs to turn out disaffected voters, not just reliable Democrats.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Not every young author who writes about disaffected young protagonists is the new Sally Rooney.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Many Democrats are also trying to win over disaffected MAHA moms.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Here was a photogenic boy-girl duo with two wonderfully wubby albums, a vague air of disaffected cool, and a very active Instagram account.
    — Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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