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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dismay .
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Examples
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And I’d bet my name dismays you greatly, so let me state my case.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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And I’d bet my name dismays you greatly, so let me state my case.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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And I’d bet my name dismays you greatly, so let me state my case.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Tragic and revealing as the sex scandal at Penn State is, it dismays me almost as much that this story can be a major news item for weeks.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011
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Tragic and revealing as the sex scandal at Penn State is, it dismays me almost as much that this story can be a major news item for weeks.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011
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Our minds are supposed to complement each other, women nurture, men provide, yet this design of nature dismays me; it seems so flawed.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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It dismays me to see Protestants, who ought to join us in championing self-control and the subjugation of the passions to the intellect, treating something as mundane as celibacy, which everyone has to practice at some point, as something "devilish."
Now That's Steamy 2009
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Tragic and revealing as the sex scandal at Penn State is, it dismays me almost as much that this story can be a major news item for weeks.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011
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It dismays me to see Protestants, who ought to join us in championing self-control and the subjugation of the passions to the intellect, treating something as mundane as celibacy, which everyone has to practice at some point, as something "devilish."
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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This drift dismays others for whom self-determination is not a priority, such as Dolors Camats of the Green party.
Spain: why prosperous Catalans may beat rebellious Basques to the exit 2011
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