0 a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment -- niezadowolenie, konsternacja
He was a local rate collector, one who showed forbearance in extracting money from hard-pressed small farmers even though this would have dismayed county officials had they known.
Proponents of community policing often feel dismayed at the recklessness with which carefully cultivated relationships are undermined by the authorisation of" fire brigade" tactics at the first suggestion of disorder.
On the left, dismayed, she receives the letter that will prove she has indeed eaten the chatelain's heart as her husband and servant present the evidence.
They were variously dismayed, appalled, or furious.
As a climatologist in a geography department it dismays me that often human activity is seen as adjunct to the climate system rather than an integral part.
Trotter was dismayed by the war hysteria of 1914 - 18, which dismissed pacifism and internationalism as 'the vapourings of cranky windbags'.
Most of my friends were dismayed by the alienation.
The losses of summer-autumn 1941, dismaying as they were, correspondingly produced no fundamental rethinking of officer policy.
