dismay

Another season, outfielder Craig Simon, knowing he was weak at the plate, intentionally struck out so he could avoid an impending double play, much to the dismay of the opposing team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Your own shock and Burack’s dismay are shared by others, it appears.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Yet residents who have cautiously returned to Nabatieh have expressed dismay at the huge damage Israel inflicted on the city's neighbourhoods and its famed market, where the roofing had collapsed and shops were devastated.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Gun-rights advocates are watching the spat with dismay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Nine-year-old Bert Lewyn watched his father’s dismay as he read the news about Hitler’s appointment.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

That dismays Cathy Newman, a Louisiana State University graduate who just took a job teaching freshman biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022

Archpriest Andriy Pinchuk, 44, the former mayor of a small agricultural village just south of the central city of Dnipro, said the hesitancy dismays many parish priests.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

It dismays me to see that The Post has a way to go before it achieves complete grammatical accuracy.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online has said he is "dismayed" by reports the government is to ban young people from using some social media platforms.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

They were also dismayed and confused by the news that green card applicants would possibly have to leave the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

While Mr. Blanche was Republicans’ whipping boy, their real target was Mr. Trump, whose recent interventions in Republican politics have dismayed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Warsh left the Fed in 2011, dismayed by the growth of its balance sheet in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

I can’t dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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 so many of them have been forgotten.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson