dismaying

No American orchestra of San Diego’s merit or promise under its rising star music director, Rafael Payare, had been stuck in so dismaying a venue as Symphony Towers.

Given how the Kelseys tried to rob native people of their ancestral connection to their homeland farther inland, it’s dismaying to see people in 2024 argue to keep the name Kelseyville, says Duncan’s nephew, Lake County Supervisor Chair Eddie Crandell.

It was not merely the secrecy in which the scheme had been plotted that its critics found dismaying.

Mr. Musk has signaled recently that Tesla will focus on autonomous driving technology and a vehicle he calls the Robotaxi, dismaying investors who had expected the company to develop a new, lower-priced model that could make electric cars affordable to a broader range of customers and people in more countries.

Three days later, on Jan. 31, he sensed a gap — a dismaying silence where bees should have been active — and it didn’t take him long to realize 96 hives were missing, brazenly kidnapped sometime in the night.