Synonyms
Examples for "dismay"
Examples for "dismay"
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Former congressional colleagues expressed dismay at the news reports following the indictment.
2
How can we account for this widespread fear and dismay in Europe?
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Bereaved family members reacted with dismay to the level of the fine.
4
The succession of Ferdinand excited especial dismay and indignation in the Palatinate.
5
Of course, as Pandora discovered to her dismay, even openness has consequences.
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Central banks' purchases of government securities artificially depress the cost of borrowing.
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Other studies have shown that TFA teachers depress young students' reading scores.
3
The alleged Russian campaign to depress turnout of minority voters is wrong.
4
Video games can also distract, depress, have a negative impact on health.
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Higher inflation tends to depress bond prices, lifting yields in the process.
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To defeat an army, you must demoralize and throw it into disorder.
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Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
3
The fear exists that the fall of the captain will demoralize the rest.
4
We indulge in feelings which tend to demoralize the whole character.
5
In plain English, he wishes to demoralize only the higher classes of society.
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It believes a full apology would demoralise its citizens and project weakness.
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Too much politics in our food threatened to demoralise our large cities.
3
Analysts said the move could demoralise the remaining cadres of ULFA.
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Two or three executions of this kind usually sufficed to demoralise the enemy.
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It hadn't struck me before, but it is a fact; I do demoralise children.
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These meditations, although they made him thoughtful, did not dispirit him.
2
These proceedings tended, in a great degree, to dispirit the attendants of Mr. Park.
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No reverses seemed to dispirit him, no misfortune appeared to ruffle his calm, brave temperament.
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The whole surrounding was calculated to dispirit the five officers, to say nothing of the occasion.
5
Even our largest problems need not dispirit us.
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This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it.
2
Some names stimulate and encourage the owner, others deject and paralyse him.'
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The things which do not disturb her temper may, perhaps, deject her spirits.
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Having these to look to, what should stagger our faith, or deject our hope?
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I must deject you now and make you listen to me; there is not much more to hear.
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No huge pylons cast down upon the ground their forms in darkness.
2
Fan glanced at her in sudden fear and cast down her eyes.
3
He cast down his eyes before me; he stammered when he spoke.
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The Protestants remained at home during the period, sorrowful and cast down.
5
I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away.
Catalan
abaixar-se Spanish
bajar 1
Now that your identity crisis is over, let's get down to business.
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She said all she wants to do is get down to work.
3
Right, that's pleasantries out of the way, let's get down to business.
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Well, then, let's get down to the matters at hand, shall we?
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I always try to include basic things to get down to earth.
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He stopped to think; How was he ever going to get down?
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They take a full four months to get down to South Africa.
8
Well, well, I'll drop past history and get down to present-day facts.
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We didn't get down in transition, we need to get easy buckets.
10
Plenty of time for the Chicago Police to get down the shaft.
11
Do you think you can get down there with me all right?
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We are in such a hurry to get down to the beach.
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And with that out of the way, let's get down to business.
14
I dan't get down here but once a year in the fall.
15
I had to get down some time; I might as well start.
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They would signal the way they had to go to get down.
Portuguese
Catalan
