Synonym: alarm, bewilder, bother, confuse, disturb, embarrass, frighten. Antonym: cheer. Similar words: dismal, charisma, sadism, dismiss, dismissal, small, as many, plasma. Meaning: [dɪs'meɪ] n. 1. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles 2. fear resulting from the awareness of danger. v. 1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted 2. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
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(91) Anyone could have typed that message and his initial, she realised with dismay.
(92) Or, you were the bright one, whom your siblings watched with admiration and dismay.
(93) So Brick, who had at first dismay, now had no room to grouse.
(94) This was met with dismay and objection, but the logic could not be refuted.
(95) Unfortunately they are no respecters of persons or property as car owners find to their dismay.
(96) The report says that most respondents expressed shock and dismay over racist incidents on campus.
(97) Her initial surge of euphoria was instantly followed by dismay.
(98) Such alarms reflected the Alsops' tendency to cloak their analyses in portentous terms of dread and dismay.
(99) Left behind in the road the soldiers bunched in dismay, not one daring the same leap.
(100) At times these difficulties combined with a muddled administrative situation to produce utter confusion and dismay.
(101) And of course the moments of dismay and indecision were moments lost.
(102) Lucy discovered to her dismay that she was pregnant.
(103) Meg looked up at her in dismay.
(104) The enemy retreated in perfect dismay.
(105) The father's face stiffened with dismay.
(106) The prideful cat hunted around like a headoff inand finally left in dismay.
(107) To her dismay, the blood continued to ooze out, unabated.
(108) Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay,[www.Sentencedict.com] and to his own great glory.
(109) At length there broke in upon my dreams a cry as of horror and dismay; and thereunto, after a pause, succeeded the sound of troubled voices, intermingled with many low moanings of sorrow or of pain.
(110) His back ached badly, and he noticed with dismay that his paws were beginning to get all crinkly .
(111) The captain made her advances that filled her with sickening dismay.
(112) She assumed an air of confidence in spite of her dismay.
(113) Many of his contemporaries shared his surprise and dismay and assumed that this apparent triumph of an uncivilised eastern nation over the best fighting machine in Europe was but a flash in the pan.
(114) "The gay mayor maybe lay in the hay by the Baby bay," he says in dismay.
(115) To my dismay, a friend recently told me he prefers the Rachmaninoff piano concertos to those of Mozart because Rachmaninoff is more "gutsy" and "wears his heart on his sleeve."
(116) Much to the dismay of the older, more experienced Rasta, the younger generation is getting use to the fast food takeover, the lazy, frivolous, simple way of life.
(117) 'How could you be so treacherous!' said Tess, between archness and real dismay, and getting rid of his arm by pulling open his fingers one by one, though at the risk of slipping off herself.
(118) But this news has been the biggest cause of dismay to the US Navy since a Chinese attack submarine embarrassingly popped up in the middle of a US Navy fleet exercise off China.
(119) To his dismay he saw that the thread was no longer silver but gray and lusterless .
(120) Shelton listened with mingled feelings of amusement and dismay, till the old actor, having finished resumed his crouching posture at the table.
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