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are crestfallen
adjective
Sad because of a recent disappointment.
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"The players are crestfallen - they have given their all emotionally and physically.
Most Pistons fans are crestfallen Knicks fans and untethered Nets fans who realize that their magic carpet ride is over.
No doubt the Yankees 37-222) are crestfallen that, after Thursday's series finale, they do not play the Orioles 16-433) untiLabor Dayay.
Other hazards of the job: women who are crestfallen when their births do not go according to plan and C-sections are ordered — not the image they wanted to capture.
Metal traditionalists are crestfallen at the prospect of far fewer 400-foot home runs sailing with that special ping (or thunk or clank) from the $350 metal bats that have been de rigueur for celebrated high school sluggers.
Most of Jim Dixon's movies were the kind shown on a double bill at the drive-in, like "It's Alive," a 1974 film in which "two new parents are crestfallen to discover their baby is a bloodthirsty freak," according to the advertising blurb.
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She was crestfallen.
Allen was crestfallen.
Huncke would be crestfallen.
"He was crestfallen".
Mr. Thompson was crestfallen.
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