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is dismaying
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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It is dismaying – and probably inevitable.
Without strong leadership, the Senate's record is dismaying.
But the way the government has treated him is dismaying.
If applied to Moore's Law, the prospect is dismaying.
The nature of some of the discussion and conjecture in the media, however, is dismaying.
Plenty about the ways that much of our food is raised and processed is dismaying.
What is dismaying is simply that no new people would come into existence.
In the aftermath of Franco Zeffirelli's disastrously received "Traviata," this hapless "Lucia" is dismaying.
Still, the idea that you struggle to feel for those who aren't like you is dismaying.
So it is dismaying to find that some sitting justices continue to own stocks.
The first possibility is dismaying but the alternative is no cause for relief.
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