Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.
Sinônimos
Examples for "dismay"
Examples for "dismay"
1Former congressional colleagues expressed dismay at the news reports following the indictment.
2How can we account for this widespread fear and dismay in Europe?
3Bereaved family members reacted with dismay to the level of the fine.
4The succession of Ferdinand excited especial dismay and indignation in the Palatinate.
5Of course, as Pandora discovered to her dismay, even openness has consequences.
1Central banks' purchases of government securities artificially depress the cost of borrowing.
2Other studies have shown that TFA teachers depress young students' reading scores.
3The alleged Russian campaign to depress turnout of minority voters is wrong.
4Video games can also distract, depress, have a negative impact on health.
5Higher inflation tends to depress bond prices, lifting yields in the process.
1To defeat an army, you must demoralize and throw it into disorder.
2Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
3The fear exists that the fall of the captain will demoralize the rest.
4We indulge in feelings which tend to demoralize the whole character.
5In plain English, he wishes to demoralize only the higher classes of society.
1It believes a full apology would demoralise its citizens and project weakness.
2Too much politics in our food threatened to demoralise our large cities.
3Analysts said the move could demoralise the remaining cadres of ULFA.
4Two or three executions of this kind usually sufficed to demoralise the enemy.
5It hadn't struck me before, but it is a fact; I do demoralise children.
1These meditations, although they made him thoughtful, did not dispirit him.
2These proceedings tended, in a great degree, to dispirit the attendants of Mr. Park.
3No reverses seemed to dispirit him, no misfortune appeared to ruffle his calm, brave temperament.
4The whole surrounding was calculated to dispirit the five officers, to say nothing of the occasion.
5Even our largest problems need not dispirit us.
1No huge pylons cast down upon the ground their forms in darkness.
2Fan glanced at her in sudden fear and cast down her eyes.
3He cast down his eyes before me; he stammered when he spoke.
4The Protestants remained at home during the period, sorrowful and cast down.
5I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away.
1Now that your identity crisis is over, let's get down to business.
2She said all she wants to do is get down to work.
3Right, that's pleasantries out of the way, let's get down to business.
4Well, then, let's get down to the matters at hand, shall we?
5I always try to include basic things to get down to earth.
1This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it.
2Some names stimulate and encourage the owner, others deject and paralyse him.'
3The things which do not disturb her temper may, perhaps, deject her spirits.
4Having these to look to, what should stagger our faith, or deject our hope?
5I must deject you now and make you listen to me; there is not much more to hear.
6The sight appeared to deject him.
7I am quite deject and wretched.
8O let not our venom of sin deject us, while there is the blood of Christ to cleanse us!
9Some names stimulate and encourage the owner; others deject and paralyze him: I am a melancholy instance of that truth.
10Shall calamity deject it?
11Anger and hatred bestow a new force on all our thoughts and actions; while humility and shame deject and discourage us.
12No longer can the outside of things deceive him, or the defeats of the higher by the lower deject, much less overwhelm him.
13The streaming of their colours was also terrible and dejecting to behold.
14He looked pale and dejected as he rode past beneath the window.
15He remained at home all the next day, worn out and dejected.
16He was tired out and dejected beyond measure by this tragic encounter.