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dismayingly
adverb
uk /dɪˈsmeɪ.ɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈsmeɪ.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel unhappy and disappointed:
His presentation of women can be dismayingly passive.
There seems to be dismayingly little international agreement on how to deal with the threat.
The match gets off to a dismayingly poor start.
It remains dismayingly easy to browse through the reports and find errors.
Dismayingly, I was later told that the house I wanted had already been sold.
The minister made it dismayingly clear that reducing the aid budget will be a priority.
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