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be crestfallen
adjective
Sad because of a recent disappointment.
Exact(14)
Huncke would be crestfallen.
Some of them will be crestfallen after Sunday's game.
The couple suggest that they wouldn't be crestfallen if the house took a bit of time to sell.
The party has long been divided on electoral reform, and even its pro-AV camp were not so enthusiastic as to be crestfallen tonight.
He'll be crestfallen at his own fate, but he nevertheless looks genuinely happy for the young Australian, who has been through so much pain in majors.
What was needed was an independent circuit of theatres for their exhibition, a circuit whose audience wouldn't be crestfallen to lose out on the next R.K.O. or M-G-M picture.
Similar(46)
She was crestfallen.
Allen was crestfallen.
"He was crestfallen".
Mr. Thompson was crestfallen.
We were crestfallen.
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