Criticise girl said to be dejected

Usage examples of dismayed.

Hughes was tired and shocked and dismayed by this whole sordid business.

She could not have been any more dismayed and frightened if she had walked into the television room and found their new big-screen TV floating in the air.

She had become something nearly monstrous by then - her body had seemed nothing more than boobs and butt and belly, all overtopped by her pasty, perpetually dismayed face.

He jerked his startled, dismayed face out of the viewer and saw her pelting toward him across the store in her stocking feet, her dress flying out behind her.

Ben drew in a dismayed gasp and smelled something hot and punky and wild.

But the discord of Melkor rose in uproar and contended with it, and again there was a war of sound more violent than before, until many of the Ainur were dismayed and sang no longer, and Melkor had the mastery.

But so soon as any came up with the Cloud of Ungoliant the riders of the Valar were blinded and dismayed, and they were scattered, and went they knew not whither.

Then indeed Morgoth was dismayed, and he descended into the uttermost depths of Angband, and withdrew his servants, sending forth great reek and dark cloud to hide his land from the light of the Day-star.

Then Beren sprang from behind rock, and slew captain, and taking the hand and the ring he escaped, being defended by fate for the Orcs were dismayed, and their arrows wild.

And Amandil, becoming aware of the purposes of the King, was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed.

And some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that Sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear, being dismayed by the fall of Morgoth and the great wrath of the Lords of the West.

He had been shocked and dismayed to discover it had never been Qynh who had written to him, but at the same time, his true devastation had come from the realization that some part of him had always known.

He had been rather startled and dismayed to instead be appointed the Ulusian tribunicia potestate by the empire, a post he was due to hold for two years.

He was so dismayed to know that I bought the Elf at a catasta, that we did not tell him about the map, the lair.

He had braced himself for the absence of any communication from Joan, the dismayed revulsions of his former friends and associates-though these assaults still afflicted him with a vertiginous nausea of rage and self-disgust.