Sentences with dismay
dis·may
D d - Local councillors have reacted with dismay and indignation.
- The committee was dismayed by what it had been told. [be VERB-ed]
- Her choice of career dismays her parents.
- North Melbourne premiership player and life member John Cassin takes unusual step of expressing his dismay at the Kangaroos' tactics against the Bulldogs.
- The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- She was dismayed to learn of their disloyalty.
- Dismay suggests fear or, esp. in modern usage, discouragement at the prospect of some difficulty or problem which one does not quite know how to resolve [dismayed at his lack of understanding]; appall suggests terror or (now more commonly) dismay at a shocking but apparently unalterable situation [an appalling death rate]; horrify suggests horror or loathing (or, in a weakened sense, irritation) at that which shocks or offends one [horrified at the suggestion]; daunt implies a becoming disheartened in the performance of an act that requires some courage [never daunted by adversity]
- The new law dismayed some of the more conservative politicians.