crestfallen in the PONS Dictionary

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He (disobeyer) shall be stricken with misfortune and shall be crestfallen.
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But they were crestfallen when they found nothing on his person!
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The poor man -- so ebullient earlier in the day -- looked crestfallen.
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Spotted the perfect sneakers, but then been crestfallen to discover they do not come in quite the right shade.
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Staunchly brave and hopeful on the outside, but crestfallen and dour on the inside in nearly every televised interview which followed.
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My husband's goes all crestfallen again: the odds for mutual parental enjoyment are not looking good.
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The upward reaching curves of this figureculminating in the manneristically long fingerscontrast with its crestfallen gaze, comprising an image of appalling sadness and pain.
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The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.
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Well, he felt -- he was crestfallen, as he should be.
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The majority felt exposed, crestfallen, and humiliated.
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