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The boys looked crestfallen, and Penelope rushed to explain.

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The children, whose tendency to get carried away was exceeded only by their eagerness to please, looked crestfallen.

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"Guys, I just got poked knuckle deep in the eyeball. Why are you booing? I can't see," said a crestfallen Aspinall.

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Wales' players were crestfallen at the final whistle, glazed looks in their eyes as it dawned on them that a huge opportunity had slipped through their grasp.

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“She was crestfallen, but she recovered quickly,” Nuñez narrates dramatically as she drives away.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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