dismay
verb (used with object)
noun
Origin of dismay
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Related Words for dismayed
dispirit, rattle, frighten, puzzle, unnerve, agitate, confound, shake, horrify, terrify, dumbfound, disillusion, bewilder, flummox, appall, daunt, disquiet, perplex, bother, disconcertExamples from the Web for dismayed
Contemporary Examples of dismayed
Buddhist purists are dismayed by one-percenters using mindfulness to get even richer.
I am often dismayed at the many ways in which we medicalize a natural phenomenon that affects us all—aging.
Many of your fellow citizens are dismayed by your conduct, and our anger has nothing to do with the color of your skin.
Olivia is dismayed at everything that's happening and decides to get on a plane and run away with Jake.
So I was dismayed to find that the makers of 300: Rise of an Empire had completely ignored them.
Historical Examples of dismayed
Wretched about one son, he was dismayed at the nocturnal visit of the other.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
The little parish woke with a dismayed start and went to work, to a woman.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
She had been smiling while she was telling this to him, but now she dismayed him by bursting into tears.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
“You must hide me till the morning somewhere,” she said in a dismayed voice.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
And then, too, I was dismayed to find how totally I had mistaken the position of the musician.
The First ViolinJessie Fothergill