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dismayed

adjective C1
  1. Having the emotion of dismay. · He was dismayed to find his car had gone.
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Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 77 · C1
Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath--all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 175 · C1
Anne felt a queer little sensation of dismayed surprise.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 306 · C1
It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · C1

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