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UK
/dɪsmˈeɪɪŋ/
]
[ US /dɪsˈmeɪɪŋ/ ]
[ US /dɪsˈmeɪɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
causing consternation
appalling conditions
How To Use dismaying In A Sentence
- Yet, dismayingly, the Government retracted many of these commitments this week - and the numbers problem festers on.
- Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback. Ghost in the Machine
- Tenderness dismayingly cut with acerbities. Times, Sunday Times
- That second change was dismaying because it also conferred resistance to another common drug called clindamycin that physicians used when erythromycin did not work. SUPERBUG
- The conservative commentator George Will has been especially incisive of late about the "dismaying," "un-presidential temperament" of McCain and the sleazy tenor of his campaign. Carl Bernstein: The Palin Pick -- The Devolution of McCain
- The kids learned about Cohen's criticism -- which chorus director Gregg Breinberg called "dismaying," -- when they returned to New York. NY Daily News
- This is almost certainly not some deep-dyed plot by the company to rewrite history, but is the product of dismaying ignorance.
- John Hinderaker calls the result "dismaying," arguing that Paul "has no business being taken seriously as a Presidential contender. Blogometer
- What is dismaying is that the salary bill and the administrative costs go on rising, which means the size of the government continues to be unwieldy.
- What is so maddeningly dismaying is the way the cynical media’s pose of hagiographic respect for the Pope amounts to an ungenerousness to the religion and to the world he leaves behind. The Television News Brain | PopPolitics.com