chapfallen
Example Sentences
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Since Matt excels at writing about sensitive people whose lives slump within that chapfallen key, the result is songs that are rich with mood, slow-cooked all the way down.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2010
Tough, intelligent, determined and, now, icily angry, Oxford-trained Economist Hugh Gaitskell had saved his claim to party leadership and served notice on the somewhat chapfallen neutralists that they had won only one round.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen fa�ades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But wheat prices were up, around $1, and wheat farmers could not be wholly chapfallen with the prospect of dollar wheat.
From Time Magazine Archive
For so chapfallen was I that I wished nothing better than that he should do his worst with me.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
