Words similar to dismay

Example sentences for: dismay

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Now, to my dismay, Muriel Smith writes in VERBATIM [XVIII,2,23] that “the suggested definition [ sic ] is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.
"A book of heart, fire and genius," says the New York Times Book Review . More controversial is Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain , a surprise best seller about a Civil War deserter, which, to the dismay of many critics, beat out DeLillo's Underworld for the National Book Award.
But naive or not, that dismay certainly feels true to its time, as does Wilcha's decision to stop filming after the suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana.
In his voice-over narration, Wilcha is open about his dismay at this fact, and the movie as a whole is embedded in a critique of consumerism that seems ultimately naive.
Apart from Sam Adams and Grolsch, the tasters really had trouble telling one beer from another . This conclusion is implicit in many of the findings, but it was really obvious during the experiment itself, when the confident look of men-who-know-their-beer quickly turned to dismay and panic as they realized that all the lagers tasted pretty much the same.