The phrase "dismayed her" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of disappointment, shock, or worry that affected someone. For example: - The news of her mother's illness greatly dismayed her. - The team's loss in the championship game deeply dismayed their fans. - The poor test results dismayed her parents.
The father's answer probably didn't surprise the daughter, but it might have dismayed her.
These offers have dismayed her, especially since she, and her parents, had envisioned college as a pathway to upward mobility.
She was not blind or nave, and much in Castro's Cuba -- the cult of personality, the mushrooming bureaucracy, the "overwrought" revolutionary jargon -- dismayed her.
It is too soon to say that hopes have been dashed, but her failure to stand up for the oppressed Rohingya Muslims, victims of a renewed and lethal military assault since October, has dismayed her many supporters in the west.
A thoroughbred from Saratoga, Amy has dismayed her parents by marrying Sam Hammer Mark Harelikk), a Jewish retail magnate who has set her up in a comfortable town house on Millionaires' Row, as the stretch of 23rd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues was once called.
"I applaud them for the effort and trying to move forward," she added, but the decision to keep the same portrait of Uncle Ben, bow tie and all, also dismayed her because "they're trying so hard to hold onto something I'm trying so hard to get rid of".
One might expect Russia's pay-as-you-go medicine to dismay her.
She still showed up for meetings at the New York Public Library; she still ran those meetings, dismaying her successor, Frances Clarke Sayers, who tried switching meeting places, to no avail: "No matter where you held them, she was there".
Not long afterward, a singing waiter at Jimmy Kelly's, in Union Square, wrote a song entitled "Sadie Salome (Go Home)," which told of a nice Jewish girl who dismays her sweetheart, Mose, by playing Salome onstage.
After her husband died in 2011, she was dismayed that her sons did not invite her to live with them, but she also dreaded becoming a burden.
A woman in "The Natural Order of Things," graced with the glorious name of Dona Orquidea, is dismayed when her doctor announces that her kidney stones have dissolved.
