All 8 Uses of
dismay
in
Babbitt
- Then George F. Babbitt did a dismaying thing.†
Chpt 1 *
- He liked to like the people about him; he was dismayed when they did not like him.†
Chpt 6
- He was dismayed by a sudden contempt for his surest friends.†
Chpt 9
- However accustomed to the literary labors of advertisements and correspondence, Babbitt was dismayed on the evening when he sat down to prepare a paper which would take a whole ten minutes to read.†
Chpt 13
- A dinner two weeks off, even a family dinner, never seems so appalling, till the two weeks have astoundingly disappeared and one comes dismayed to the ambushed hour.†
Chpt 15
- The agreeable child dismayed him.†
Chpt 18
- It was dismaying to Babbitt to have such a person glower at him.†
Chpt 32
- Dilling the surgeon, Charles McKelvey the contractor, and, most dismaying of all, the white-bearded Colonel Rutherford Snow, owner of the Advocate-Times.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising