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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

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

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

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

We had angry words about this accident, for Willis, much chapfallen over the mishap, blamed me, and declared that I ought to buy him a new gun.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten




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