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is disaffected
adjective
Alienated or estranged, often with hostile effect; rebellious, resentful; disloyal.
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IF ALGERIA has plenty of anything, it is disaffected youth.
It is a relatively poor region, where the population is disaffected and where the economy is shrinking rapidly.
Igby is disaffected, though less so than White Mike, the Upper East Side teenager in Nick McDonnell's recent novel "Twelve," who drops out of school, deals drugs and winds up caught in a shootout involving an Uzi.
The European Union, he said, was "undemocratic to the point where the electorate is disaffected, and ungovernable to the point where it cannot deal with the crisis that it has created".
Hirst is a would-be ad man whose works do not "encourage profound or lasting reflection"; John Lennon, the object of particular disdain, is "disaffected, dissolute and idle", lacking in "self-discipline" compared to Paul McCartney, and with a wife whose art is "mercifully beyond the scope" of the book.
"If that looked like a player who is disaffected and worried by the speculation, I can't wait to see him when he's settled," Rowett continued.
"I think the Conservative Party needs to realise there is a core voter that is disaffected with life in general, politics in general and the Conservative Party have to somehow manage to win those people back".
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Many are disaffected.
We're disaffected, so are ordinary soldiers.
Kids were disaffected and very vulnerable.
I'm disaffected, poor and clever.
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