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Disappointed at or by

What is the difference between disappointed at and dissapointed by and what do they maen?

  

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disappointed [ in / by / with / at ] They are all used, listed above in order from most to least frequent. Any of those four prepositions can be used without a change of meaning in any of the four examples below. The workers were disappointed in the salaries offered.

  • disappointed [ in / by / with / at ] They are all used, listed above in order from most to least frequent.
  • Any of those four prepositions can be used without a change of meaning in any of the four examples below.
  • The workers were disappointed in the salaries offered.
  • She was disappointed by the outcome in the KCET case.
  • I'm not disappointed with the way things went.
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disappointed [in / by / with / at]

They are all used, listed above in order from most to least frequent. Any of those four prepositions can be used without a change of meaning in any of the four examples below.

The workers were disappointed in the salaries offered.
She was disappointed by the outcome in the KCET case.
I'm not disappointed wit

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