dismay in the PONS Dictionary

dismay Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to sb's (great) dismay
за нечий (голям) ужас m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He found to his dismay that lot of energies of the rural people were wasted in litigations, which left them both impoverished and exploited.
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They take her to the studio to tell her story and surprise her to her dismay.
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This may be part of the reason why she has so many fangirls, much to her dismay.
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I've even sometimes heard, to my retrospective dismay, that unpleasant tone in my own voice.
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Her fiance is supportive at first, but he becomes quickly dismayed by her aggressive efforts to win.
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At age 14, she switched from singles to pairs, to her father's dismay.
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Gold initially walked out of a party meeting to express his dismay at the decision.
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He turned the fortunes of a club in dismay, guiding it out of the relegation zone and into a mid-table finish in the season.
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She expressed dismay at the results of the summit which she considered a collective failure to the benefit of climatoskeptics and lobbies linked to oil.
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The church was in dismaying condition in the 19th century, and was restored until 1864.
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