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Meaning of dismaying in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    /dɪsˈmeɪɪŋ/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    dismaying

    Definitions

    1. causing consternation

    Examples

    • « appalling conditions »

    Synonyms

    • alarming

Famous quotes

  • « Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? »
    Tony Kushner
  • « It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. »
    Edward Norton

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