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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Thereat he was chapfallen, but wishing nevertheless to hearten his good wife.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
They joined our party later in the day, rendering a chapfallen account of their detached service.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by George Washington Cable
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