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chapfallen

[chop-faw-luhn, chap-] / ˈtʃɒpˌfɔ lən, ˈtʃæp- /










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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

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

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

I felt chapfallen, for I was more than half inclined to believe that Dave's notion was the correct one, and I wondered that I had not thought of this myself.

From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

We departed: poor Sam perfectly silent and chapfallen; and I meditating on the wisdom of the half-pay philosopher, and wondering what means he would employ to rescue Pogson from his fate.

From The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray


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