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crestfallen

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[ US /ˈkɹɛstˌfɔɫən/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɛstfɔːlən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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