What's the difference between disaffected and estranged?
Disaffected
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Disaffect
(a.) Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
(4) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
(5) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(6) That's different to the protests we've seen in the Middle Eastern countries, where you've had economic dislocation for a prolonged period of time, and a lack of economic alternatives for disaffected youth."
(7) And yet London sometimes feels absolutely ready for an angry new movement that can take advantage of the disaffection and dispossession growing inside a city where property has become an asset class for international speculation, with even the pokiest flat well beyond the means of anyone earning the average wage.
(8) It exacerbates an environment of disaffection and disempowerment and does nothing but isolate the very community that best understands these challenges.” Race relations have reached a low ebb following the release of the government’s anti-terrorism laws, which many Muslims say have dredged up Islamophobia in the community by equating terrorism with Islam.
(9) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
(10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(11) I don’t think my voice is heard.’ I feel that disaffection.” Last year, Lone co-wrote a fascinating report on disaffection among the white working class for Open Society Foundations and yet it still seemed surprising when she decided to contest a 98% “white seat” rather than one closer to home in multicultural Manchester.
(12) This looks like a deluded bolt-on to the “35% strategy” whereby Miliband will supposedly sweep into Downing Street thanks to Labour’s core vote and disaffected former Lib Dem supporters; it only compounds the sense that people at the top of the Labour party are lost in the psephological woods.
(13) "I'm not surprised at people getting disaffected with society," said one senior commander.
(14) In actuality, Isis is the canniest of all traders in the flourishing international economy of disaffection: the most resourceful among all those who offer the security of collective identity to isolated and fearful individuals.
(15) With discontent growing, the Kremlin had attempted to build a loyal liberal opposition party that would bring in the disaffected middle class and boost Kremlin support inside parliament in the event of disastrous results for United Russia.
(16) There is an urgent need for institutional designs and procedures that promote legality, accountability and transparency in government if the population's disaffection is to be overcome and corruption reduced.
(17) But he rejected the “35% strategy” – that Labour could secure victory with a relatively small share of the total vote by targeting core voters and disaffected Liberal Democrat supporters.
(18) Like the kind of heedless, scatter-gun approach pursued by America and Britain that transformed al-Qaida from a small band of fairly well-educated violent extremists into a youthful social movement that appeals to many thousands of disaffected Muslim immigrants in the western diaspora, and many more millions who are economically and politically frustrated back home.
(19) The current uprising is spread far more widely across the country and includes a broad spectrum of disaffected citizens.
(20) In his address, Francis said he was grateful for efforts made by Anglicans to understand why his predecessor, Benedict XVI, had introduced a structure – the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – to allow disaffected members of the C of E to convert.
Estranged
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Estrange
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(2) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(3) As a result of this synthesis the sensation of "ego", appears, and information estranged from it and offered for others is determined.
(4) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(5) Her estranged father had initially opposed her wishes.
(6) The claim was made in the high court in London by Young's estranged wife, Michelle, who is divorcing him.
(7) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(8) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(9) Another told police that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel “couldn’t understand why Isis couldn’t claim its own territory” and others quizzed by detectives, including his estranged wife, spoke of his “violent behaviour”, Molins said.
(10) In the vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, the dropouts scored more positively on the self-estrangement, meaninglessness, and misfeasance scales.
(11) So Shelly Sterling’s reward is to remain a visible part of the franchise, courtside whenever she feels like it, while her estranged husband is banned from the stadium.
(12) It is one of the few things upon which politicians and an estranged electorate agree.
(13) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(14) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(15) The planned apology over Iraq is aimed at helping win back party members who either left or have stayed but felt estranged as a result of the decision to go to war, which Corbyn voted against.
(16) Before she got that opportunity, however, she was shot dead in 2009 by her estranged husband, who promptly killed himself as well.
(17) Certain family situiations create a split between some family members and the suicidal adolescent to the point of total estrangement.
(18) Although Levene and PiL frontman John Lydon remain estranged, Commercial Zone 2014 has the support of the band's former drummer, Martin Atkins.
(19) I asked Coleman if it is ever really possible to be estranged from your family when online culture is so prevalent.
(20) might persuade his estranged wife to lobby on his behalf to her dad.