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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

"Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? not one now to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen?"

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Sir John Carr

Sir Hector was evidently rather taken aback by this answer, and sat down suddenly, with a distinctly chapfallen air.

From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman




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