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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

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

His countenance corresponds with the prevailing character of his thoughts, always hopelessly chapfallen; his voice is as of the tomb.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin




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