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dismay

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The Jungle by Sinclair

All these things were going on now, and the family was helpless with dismay.
Chpt 1

dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry

Then let any one imagine their dismay, when, after half an hour, they came in with a lawyer, and heard him greet the agent by his first name!
Chpt 4

He was quite dismayed when he first began to find it out—that most of the men hated their work.
Chpt 5 *

dismayed = disappointed or worried

Jurgis could be very obstinate when he wanted to, and he was in this case, much to the dismay of the women, who felt that a man-doctor was an impropriety, and that the matter really belonged to them.
Chpt 10

dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry

Jurgis and Ona heard these stories with dismay, for there was no telling when their own time might come.
Chpt 11

However, one morning Marija took her usual detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, filling the avenue solid for half a block.
Chpt 11

Jurgis got home somehow, scarcely able to see for the pain, and with an awful terror in his soul, Elzbieta helped him into bed and bandaged his injured foot with cold water and tried hard not to let him see her dismay; when the rest came home at night she met them outside and told them, and they, too, put on a cheerful face, saying it would only be for a week or two, and that they would pull him through.
Chpt 11

There came one of those hysterical crises that had so often dismayed him.†
Chpt 15

Then they escorted her to the ladder, and Jurgis heard her give an exclamation of dismay.
Chpt 19

dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry

And Jurgis gave a cry of dismay.
Chpt 19

Jurgis gave vent to a cry of dismay, cut off suddenly by the policeman, who seized him by the collar.
Chpt 25

Jurgis sat dumb with dismay.
Chpt 26

And he stood for a moment, hesitating, helpless with dismay.
Chpt 27

Seven or eight people were gathered about it when Adams and his friend arrived, and Jurgis saw to his dismay that three of them were ladies.
Chpt 31

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Definition:

(dismay)
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising