dismay
dis may
- n the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
- n fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- v lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- v fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- He is now back advising Junior, to the dismay of head trainer Roger, his brother, who, incidentally, just finished a six-month jail stretch for battery.
- Politicians of both parties felt the need to express some sort of dismay about Iraq.
- To the dismay of hard-line clerics, his most important work presents a devastating critique of velayat-e faqih, the Shi'ite Muslim doctrine expounded by Khomeini that effectively .