dismayed

[ US /dɪsˈmeɪd/ ]
[ UK /dɪsmˈe‍ɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation
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How To Use dismayed In A Sentence

  • I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents. Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
  • European visitors to the site on the Wells Estate are often dismayed to find a landmark where undrinkable water leaks from crumbling walls.
  • He was also dismayed at the organisation and facilities and finally walked off the job in disgust.
  • I will be courageous and undismayed in the face of odds.
  • Intelligence officials are dismayed at the way their methods have been exposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Analysts who depended heavily upon intuition for their discoveries were rather dismayed at this counter-intuitive function.
  • I know that we shall not fail them; but fortified by the great experience in this war of our strength in unity, go forward with them undismayed into the future.
  • Conservative councillors, who have been campaigning for a weekly clean, said they were dismayed by the decision and felt residents had been let down.
  • He was dismayed by the "intellectual thinness" of the country.
  • Mr Bracegirdle, from Rochdale, says he was dismayed when staff told him flowers were no longer accepted.
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