disappointingly

English

Etymology

From disappointing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

disappointingly (comparative more disappointingly, superlative most disappointingly)

  1. In a disappointing manner.
    I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam.
    • 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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.
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