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Discover Ludwig"Be dismayed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to express disappointment or discouragement over an unexpected event or situation. Example sentence: She was dismayed to hear of the company's closure.
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be dismayed
verb
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
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Should we not pray for the ability to be shocked at atrocities committed by humanity, for the capacity to be dismayed at our inability to be dismayed?
(Reader, don't be dismayed: there are those accouterments, too).
You may be dismayed that I have spent far too much money on gin and tonic.
Longtime fans may be dismayed, however, at what the new songs play down.
Anyone watching is likely to be dismayed, repulsed, embarrassed or, most likely, just bored.
If producers have reason to be dismayed, owners of NBC's affiliated stations may be expected to be in open revolt.
She would be dismayed to hear it, but more than a century later her stories retain their capacity to burn.
This is disappointing, yet those many Burmese working for a democratic Burma have so much to be dismayed about.
Asteroid researchers will be dismayed to hear of the demise of AIM.
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said: "The defence community will be dismayed that history is being dismissed.
Davies feels that Barrowman and David-Lloyd would both be dismayed were that to happen.
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