crestfallen

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Nora looked crestfallen, also.

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  1. adjective Dispirited and depressed; dejected.

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  • I returned home very crestfallen, and after waiting the return of the boat a week later, still with no bear on board, and no letter explaining why, I wrote inquiring the cause of delay. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Wyatt seemed very crestfallen, and a great deal of sympathy was felt for him; events could not well have turned out more unfortunately for him. —  The Crime at Black Dudley - Margery Allingham - Campion 01 - 1929
  • Looking suitably crestfallen, the Boro boss sagely observed: "We have to learn how to be footballers at this level." —  TEAMtalk Football News
  • Considerably crestfallen, the delinquents dropped towards the rear Did Geraldine sneak?" —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • Come on Stephen entered Saint Dominic's thoroughly crestfallen, and fully convinced he was the most ignorant boy that ever entered a public school. —  The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story
 

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  1. That is, having the crest fallen, as a defeated cock.
 

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/ˈkrɛstfɔln/
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