Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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chapfallen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See
chapfallen .
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- adjective
chapfallen
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brought low in spirit
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Examples
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The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
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The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
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The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
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The Stockingtonians were chopfallen, but they were angry and dogged; and
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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General McClellan had very generously provided them with provisions for three days, and wagons to carry the sick and wounded; and so, footsore, weary, and chopfallen, they go over the hills.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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"Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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The latter had shrunk up in his chair and was looking as chopfallen and guilty as a dog caught sucking eggs.
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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I turned to Hawkins -- a chopfallen, cowering huddle of filth, standing upon two pearl-and-black legs -- and said:
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Edgar Franklin 1918
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It was just as well that "Dora" Eweword had been too chopfallen to come in, for we found the place in what grandma termed "a uproar."
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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Tetlow, chopfallen but obdurate, got himself speedily out of sight.
Grain of Dust. 1911
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