All 10 Uses of
dismay
in
Call It Sleep
- He started in dismay.†
Book 1dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- "The Tageblatt", she repeated in dismay, "Oh, where are my wits, I've forgotten to buy it.†
Book 1
- A shiver of dismay ran through him.†
Book 1
- In the midst of doing something or of saying something, she would suddenly utter a curious, suppressed exclamation like a sudden groan of dismay, or lift her hand in an obscure and hopeless gesture, or open her eyes as though staring at perplexity and brush back her hair.†
Book 1
- You don't seem dismayed-you don't seem downcast enough!†
Book 1 *
- I am dismayed!†
Book 1
- In dismay, David stopped speaking and blinking with dismay watched her.†
Book 1dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- In dismay, David stopped speaking and blinking with dismay watched her.†
Book 1
- With a start of dismay, he spun around over the bench, threw himself at the window.†
Book 3
- A reeling smear of words, twitching gestures, fractured lights, features, a flickering gauntlet of tumult and dismay.†
Book 4
Definition:
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising