All 11 Uses of
dismay
in
Main Street
- She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, but if she should ever learn those dismaying powers, her eyes would never become sullen or heavy or rheumily amorous.†
Chpt 1
- Since then, in four months, she had beheld Cy hanging a cat, stealing melons, throwing tomatoes at the Kennicott house, and making ski-tracks across the lawn, and had heard him explaining the mysteries of generation, with great audibility and dismaying knowledge.†
Chpt 9
- The young matrons discussed the intimacies of domesticity with a frankness and a minuteness which dismayed Carol.†
Chpt 10 *
- The hallway was dismayingly scrubbed; the kitchen was an exercise in mathematics, with problems worked out in equidistant chairs.†
Chpt 15
- Carol was dismayed by the casualness of their cruelty, but she persisted.†
Chpt 19
- "I thought I'd be a dilettante mother, but I'm as dismayingly natural as Mrs. Bogart," she boasted.†
Chpt 20
- She recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, the evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had seemed to vanish with no trace or sequence.†
Chpt 24
- "Putting your books in there?" she caught his dismay.†
Chpt 24
- …Wednesday prayer-meeting and listened to store-keeping elders giving their unvarying weekly testimony in primitive erotic symbols and such gory Chaldean phrases as "washed in the blood of the lamb" and "a vengeful God"; when Mrs. Bogart boasted that through his boyhood she had made Cy confess nightly upon the basis of the Ten Commandments; then Carol was dismayed to find the Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth century, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism—without the splendor.†
Chpt 28
- She drew up with a dismayed "Am I falling in love with this boy?†
Chpt 29
- But her dismay at Mrs. Westlake's treachery had risen to active dread.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(dismay) to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising