dismaying
Example Sentences
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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
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
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