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disaffected
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Definition:disloyal and rebellious, often because of feelings of alienation and disfavor.
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The army was disaffected, the people anxious for a return to the old order of things.
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Torie, it's so all over Haven. Dropping production, increasing sedition and disaffection.
Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Series (1942)
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There was much dissatisfaction in Napoleon’s conquered territory as he marched into Russia. But it is entirely out of relation to the giant wave of disaffection and rebellion now rising and which may yet engulf Hitler’s New Order.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace (Maude translation, intro)
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