dismay

They requested a total of $379 million in the most recent legislative session and expressed dismay at getting just $20 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

His critiques of both communism and unrestrained capitalism stemmed from his dismay that each of them undermined the dignity of human beings created in God’s image.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"We express our sorrow and dismay at the deaths of 16 elderly people in this tragedy," authorities in the municipality of Pitrufquen said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

With a cry of dismay the fleeing pair saw the blank wall ahead.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022

The Chattahoochee River and its tributaries flow through metropolitan Atlanta, but they hardly register for most people in the city — a disconnect that dismays Jonathan Keats.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 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

“It dismays me that this is a part of the political process,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2016

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

But her hedging has dismayed some former campaign staffers and supporters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

But the inquest was told she had been "dismayed" to learn Morgan was joining the Blades in February 2023.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

‘Whatever it was, its fall has dismayed our enemies.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But these virtues have to be weighed against a dismaying amount of carelessness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

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