Words similar to dismay
Example sentences for: dismay
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To their surprise and dismay, researchers found that when eligible job seekers (welfare recipients and other categories of "disadvantaged" workers) were sent off to potential employers bearing in hand the tax credits or vouchers that labeled them as high-risk cases, they were less likely--far less likely--to find jobs than if they just applied on their own.
Sports writers mercilessly scrutinized Robinson's errors in the game (notably, getting burned on an 80 yard touchdown pass) and partly blamed the Falcons' sloppy performance (several muffed touchdown opportunities and four second-half turnovers) on the attendant dismay and distraction.
[ Anglo-American ] Expletive, oath, or exclamation expressing anger, disappointment, disgust, dismay, rage, as “damn!”
There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).
In London, the Daily Telegraph carried a front-page cartoon of a dog sitting in the president's chair in the Oval Office and reading with dismay the newspaper headline "Starr Report: Buddy Stole Biscuits on 11 Separate Occasions."
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