[
US
/ˈkɹɛstˌfɔɫən/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɛstfɔːlən/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɛstfɔːlən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
brought low in spirit
left us fatigued and deflated spiritually
How To Use crestfallen In A Sentence
- While the announcement of the results brought cheer to some, many others looked crestfallen.
- Sanford isactually a little crestfallen because he can't find a peanut worm, an odd thingin the phylum Sipuncula that would give us an even ten.
- Everywhere a sullen look, -- everywhere that ineffable aspect of crestfallenness! What Will He Do with It? — Complete
- BLOOM: _ (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen, feels warm and cold feetmeat) Ja, ich weiss, papachi. Ulysses
- She must have looked crestfallen at her mistiming, because he said suddenly: `You have walked here? THE GOLDEN LION
- 'Perhaps it was the way I told it," said my crestfallen colleague. GOODBYE CURATE
- He was crestfallen when I said I just wanted to borrow the phone, but was kind enough to let me.
- Grown-up dancing at fourteen... "Jenny, crestfallen, grew quiet, as she did always when Aunt Dulcie scolded her. THE GOLDEN LION
- When the anchorwoman for the German 4x100 relay drops the baton with a big lead, he is crestfallen.
- Critics were left to slink away with crestfallen faces, hoping no one would remember their dire predictions.