英和和英

副詞

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:

     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.