dismay

Five years after buying our home, we are now, to the dismay of our parents, considering what would have once been unthinkable—going back to renting.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Their younger brother, Tillotson, meanwhile, incites mayhem among local churchgoers by impersonating an angel, much to his sisters’ dismay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The United Nations said Wednesday the 1.5C target would be missed and outlined how global temperatures might be brought back down in a first-of-its-kind assessment met with dismay in climate-vulnernable nations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Goldfeder asked — a reference to a Feb. 27 message by Bonta, who at the time was responding to Ruffalo’s dismay after Paramount won the bidding war for Warner Bros., which also owns CNN.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Taran was strong and long-legged, but, to his dismay, he saw that Hen Wen moved faster than he.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Yet the world's inability to fund more Mosquirix shots dismays many in Africa.

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022

You might “say this concerns you, that it dismays you,” he said, but that “you’re not trying to second-guess” the president.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022

So it dismays Brandi Hunter Munden, the organization’s vice president of communications, to see people turn to fad diets that she says can pose the same hazards for pets as for humans.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

The vanishing of the old nomadic ways dismays Li, but when she expressed this to a trader, he looked at her and asked, “Have we Kazakhs not suffered enough for you yet?”

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021

What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Alli Franco, a 30-year-old Texan who posts anime and gaming content to more than a million followers, external on TikTok, says she felt "dismayed" watching the debate unfold online.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“I don’t talk and think Slavery all the time,” Shaw told his dismayed parents as the secession crisis worsened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Among other things, James was dismayed that the Writers Guild of America — which had separately sued to block the deal — hadn’t been brought into the negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Beijing was initially dismayed by the coup that triggered chaos on its doorstep, analysts said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Since Shakespeare’s verse for the young lovers is among his most rhapsodic and hypnotically beautiful, the choice is dismaying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The co-owner of the Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire during New Year celebrations was released from custody on Friday after bail was paid on his behalf, dismaying victims' families.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

It was not merely the secrecy in which the scheme had been plotted that its critics found dismaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

It is dismaying that when a cougar kills livestock that the solution is to kill the cougar.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Over the breadth of an ocean the smallest miscalculations would become magnified so that ships often missed Bermuda-sized targets by dismaying margins.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson