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Dismaying   /dɪsmˈeɪɪŋ/   Listen
Dismaying

adjective
1.
Causing consternation.  Synonym: appalling.






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"Dismaying" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Hebraic spirit and genius, rebellious to or transcending the usual limitations of Hebraism; with Marcus Aurelius as an example of that non-Christian morality and religiosity which also had so strong an attraction for him. There is no trace in either essay of the disquieting and almost dismaying jocularity which was later to invade his discussion of such things: we are still far from Bottles; the three Lord Shaftesburys relieve us by not even threatening to appear. And accordingly the two essays add in no small degree, though somewhat after the fashion of an ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury



Words linked to "Dismaying" :   alarming



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