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The phrase "a growing disaffection with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing feeling of dissatisfaction or lack of interest towards someone or something.
Example: "There is a growing disaffection with the current political leadership among the younger voters."
Alternatives: "an increasing dissatisfaction with" or "a rising discontent towards".
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The mood in the country is darkening amid increasing economic hardship, worsening disorder and a growing disaffection with the government and its foreign backers, particularly over the issue of government corruption.
Yet if Pita says he longs to get inside "the lines and the rituals of ballet", he admits that his interest in classicism has also been fed by a growing disaffection with the contemporary dance scene, which he feels is fragmenting into too many niche, introverted stylistic camps.
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At a time of growing disaffection with politics, and alienation caused by globalisation, how do we teach young people that ignorance is not bliss, that expertise is of value, that they can make a difference?
Iraq's religious leaders represent some of the last vestiges of authority at a time of growing disaffection with politicians, who are widely seen as corrupt and ineffective.
It has been the feeling, unquantifiable but widespread, of a growing disaffection among its core voters and activists.
ROME — Sicilians shunned regional elections to renew the island's Parliament on Sunday in record numbers, in an unequivocal signal of growing disaffection with Italy's political class, even as the center-left wrested control from center-right parties that had governed the region since 2000.
There's Brian, an Ivy League-educated real estate lawyer whose growing disaffection with his life has him flirting with a sexy Cuban colleague and potentially ruinous financial dealings.
His R.F.K. presides over a country in which war and partisanship have wrought growing disaffection with the notion that "government did more or less the right thing most of the time".
Even in those countries that have, in Messing and Ságvári's terms, relatively high levels of trust, stability and cohesion, such as Germany and the Scandinavian nations, there has been growing disaffection with mainstream institutions and political parties, a disaffection that has expressed itself in the rise of anti-immigration movements and of the far right.
The letter is condemnatory of the Australian government dumping its "rubbish [refugees]" on Nauru, but is also reflective of Nauruans' growing disaffection with their own government, widely seen as a corrupt cabal that has bankrupted the once-wealthy island state.
"The effect on competitiveness is very small, but the social impact is huge," said Yannis Stournaras, an economist and the director of a research institute who joined a reform-minded civic movement, one of many to crop up amid growing disaffection with existing political parties.
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