dismay

Since April, sites in Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and elsewhere have been transformed, prompting legal battles and local dismay.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The lawmakers signed letters to FCC Secretary Marlene H. Dortch to register their dismay and question the legitimacy of the FCC’s review protocol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ethics watchdogs expressed dismay this week over the deals.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Yet residents who have cautiously returned to Nabatieh have expressed dismay at the huge damage Israel inflicted on the city's neighbourhoods and its famed market, where the roofing had collapsed and shops were devastated.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

“He’s a thief. He’ll steal—” He stopped, as if he had remembered something, and then to my dismay he gave a terrible groan and tried to get out of the bed.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Yet the world's inability to fund more Mosquirix shots dismays many in Africa.

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022

Archpriest Andriy Pinchuk, 44, the former mayor of a small agricultural village just south of the central city of Dnipro, said the hesitancy dismays many parish priests.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

“I think, though, that it’s all right for you to say that this concerns you, that it dismays you, and you are always concerned with aggression,” Johnson told Nixon, referring to him as “Dick.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022

Yet despite that sharp contrast with Trump’s wealth, Merritt sees a similarity between the two men that dismays her.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2019

From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Beijing was initially dismayed by the coup that triggered chaos on its doorstep, analysts said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Nandy was dismayed by some Labour colleagues in Westminster who raised eyebrows at the celebrations.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

While Mr. Blanche was Republicans’ whipping boy, their real target was Mr. Trump, whose recent interventions in Republican politics have dismayed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

LA28 previously advertised tickets as being affordable for locals, but many shoppers last month were dismayed to find prices in the thousands.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

The spear points both intrigued and dismayed Figgins.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Since Shakespeare’s verse for the young lovers is among his most rhapsodic and hypnotically beautiful, the choice is dismaying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The co-owner of the Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire during New Year celebrations was released from custody on Friday after bail was paid on his behalf, dismaying victims' families.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Within that sphere we’re treated to a voice performance by Woods that is a small, hilarious, somewhat dismaying tour de force.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

As the committee chair, Oppenheimer signed the one-page memo, dated June 16, 1945, that came to the dismaying conclusion that “we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

But now, just when the new view seems to be taking hold, we may be in for another wrench, this time more dismaying and unsettling than anything we’ve come through.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas