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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'must be disappointing' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something (or someone) that is likely to be disappointing. For example: "The results of the experiment must be disappointing after all the hard work they put in."
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It must be disappointing to bag your first feature-length lead role, only to be asked to take your clothes off.
Against that backdrop, it must be disappointing to see like-for-like sales fall 1%, notwithstanding the plea that a headwind was created by the sensible decision to chop big-ticket, low-margin, ranges such as electrical goods.
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As critic John Mahoney put it, to both Lamb and Hazlitt, "the performance of Shakespeare in a theatre must always be disappointing to an extent because the slightest departure from the vision conjured by the imagination is so immediately detected and so quickly a source of aesthetic displeasure".
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To be let go like that must be very disappointing".
The result of the Swedish general election must be deeply disappointing for the left.
Hi David, you've just cancelled your tour (1 – see footnotes below) – that must be very disappointing.
"It must be terribly disappointing because it was a huge stepping out for Molson," said Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of Beer Business Daily, a newsletter based in San Antonio.
9.01pm: The Economist bemoans the fact that – unlike in 1979 and 1997 – there is no big intellectual argument underpinning an election that may usher in a significant change of governemnt: There are no key books that politicians can point to that signify a significant shift in the spirit of the age, and that must be particularly disappointing for the Tories.
Nevertheless, the fact that no differential uptake of 124I-IAZGP was observed in any disease site must be considered disappointing.
It must be very disappointing to think that a longtime friend has taken advantage of your loyalty and hard work - but now won't even take your calls.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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