chapfallen
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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.
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But wheat prices were up, around $1, and wheat farmers could not be wholly chapfallen with the prospect of dollar wheat.
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During the whole course of my Life I had never seen a man at first so chapfallen; and then so furiously indignant.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Amazed, chapfallen, half-palsied, he stood before her, his fine religious zeal wiped out by fear of that knife in her weak woman's hand.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini
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