Sometimes growth can disaffect your core audience. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Posting: Watch Out for Complaints] Reference
She came in bold as brass, tried to incite my crew to disaffect. From Wordnik.com. [The Way To Eden] Reference
Mike, Raleigh: 18 million people aren't going to disaffect because their candidate lost. From Wordnik.com. [Obama keeps Dean] Reference
This will only disaffect more Americans and more Europeans and cause even fewer young men in the West to enter the priesthood. From Wordnik.com. [04/19/2005] Reference
The newspapers describing the fictional atrocities in Ireland had been intended to disaffect the Irish soldiers in the British army. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Inquiry being made whether Mr. Norton's preaching was calculated to disaffect subjects towards the government, no evidence was found to that effect. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
Nothing could be more calculated to disaffect him from the new dispensation and thus any such plan can only prove to be short-sighted in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [SA Enjoys It While it Can] Reference
Gallatin warned him against the attempt that would be made to disaffect that district because none of the representatives whose seats had been vacated were residents of it. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
And if you think that public knowledge of your nonprofit's contributions would disaffect your financial supporters or create bad publicity for your organization, why on earth are you doing it in the first place?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
I think retreat and a hard pivot to the economy is the best move, but Obama will have to throw some red meat to the liberal base on that issue too… which will only serve to disaffect more in the center and the working class type Ds. From Wordnik.com. [Neither Reid nor Pelosi have the Votes to do Anything Else on ObamaCare | RedState] Reference
When I mentioned the matter to Curtis I found he had already noticed these secret interviews, and that they had given him enough concern to make him determined to keep a strict eye upon Jynxtrop and Owen, who, rascals as they were themselves, were evidently trying to disaffect their mates. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference
But to stand conviction by a Decree of Congress of publishing cruel and groundless assertions or Libels without a hearing when actually fighting for Liberty is intolerable in a free Country and has a direct tendency to check the ambition, and even disaffect those Men by whose wisdom Valour and perseverance America is to be made free, not to mention the dangerous president such trials may afford. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
But can there be a worse inclination in any creature than to disaffect the Author and Original of its own being?. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
It is a most unnatural wickedness to the Parent of that being which we are each of us furnished with, to disaffect our own Original. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
That men should disaffect him from whom they immediately sprang, and whose image they expressly bear, is, I say, a most unnatural crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
There's a quilt of snark lain over this disaffect-o-matic wine-and-cheese jazz-pop chick's tunes - all of them self-written, a nice switch. From Wordnik.com. [Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life] Reference
I endeavor to detach her from him, and disaffect her towards him; knowing, that if I can separate them entirely, I shall be more likely to succeed in my plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact] Reference
But there is no draft to disaffect American youth; no Soviet or Chinese aid to sustain the guerrilla; no anti-imperialist solidarity to weaken the system in its homelands. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
He seems to have been a bit of a sea lawyer, and tried to disaffect the other workmen by talking to them about socialism, and the rights of labour, and that sort of rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [The Shrieking Pit] Reference
But is not this infinitely more prodigious to disaffect the entire and supreme Author of our own life and being, of which parents are but partial, or at most but subordinate authors. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
Say it's because you quite shamelessly made motions at others while you stood there, and did your best to disaffect men who hadn't the least desire to join in your trouble-making. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
When I mentioned the matter to Curtis I found he had already noticed these secret interviews, and that they had given him enough concern to make him determined to keep a strict eye upon Jynxstrop and Owen, who, rascals as they were themselves, were evidently trying to disaffect their mates. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger] Reference
Yair concluded that structures of instruction that disaffect students, are very much represented in students’ daily school life while those that motivate them toward reading are not frequent enough. From Wordnik.com. [Motivation for Learning Reading Skill « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Yet, bethink thee, for her sake, if there be any within this circle -- however fairly spoken -- who may be intriguing against thee, yet seeking in secret to disaffect the court in favor of some other claimant. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
As to Heller’s dicta regarding its disaffect on felon in possession laws, I think these provisions were likely loosely presumed to represent the very kind of provision that would pass strict scutiny, but without briefing and focus on the narrow question it certainly can’t be construed as having been decided — or even significantly portended by Heller. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Original Meaning and State Constitutional Rights to Keep and Bear Arms:] Reference
Will she disaffect Hillary Clinton voters?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2008] Reference
Detachment to their officers, and disaffect them to the service for which they have been so sacredly and solemnly engaged. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
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