dismaying

The utter vagueness of Billy's "waste places" was dismaying, to say the least.

He admits their truth with a candor and an intelligence that are dismaying.

This was dismaying news and for the moment Dick was nonplussed.

She knew, as a matter of course, that they would be dismaying.

The unknown in the distance, instead of dismaying, drew him on.

Into the half-year she has put a flattering success and a dismaying failure.

For Bliss and Brent and Sam looked—it was the dismaying truth—they looked young!

This might be so; but yet, how dismaying and hopeless to him the idea of carrying them into effect!

Volplaning to earth, he looked for the source of this dismaying interruption.

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