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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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
The Regulators looked very tame and "chapfallen" for a day or two; and Nevers condescended to inform Richard that the whole thing was a bad failure.
From In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. by Oliver Optic