Dismaying

The leadership fight has provided a dismaying start for the new Republican slim majority in the House.

The sight of untamed weeds and overgrown grass around our lovely sidewalk trees sends a dismaying message to locals and visitors alike.

Both votes came as ceasefire resolutions have become a popular advocacy tool for pro-Palestinian activists, dismaying many American Jews and vexing Democrats.

But how dismaying it is to witness Ukraine’s political mud fight, its ubiquitous corruption, rampant oligarchs, neo-Nazi gangs and bitter squabbles with its Russian-speaking minority.

It’s not just what parties and groups are doing online that is dismaying for Daniel.

Reading the Brookings report was startling and dismaying.

What this spineless dereliction implies for other, similar pro-democracy movements opposed to authoritarian regimes, such as those in Egypt and Russia, or for China’s persecuted Uighur and Hui Muslim minorities, is gravely dismaying.

That such a seemingly obvious line from a male celebrity feels so extraordinary is dismaying; that Bourdain was willing to scream it just as loudly as he once told sous chefs to suck his dick gives me hope.

He displays dismaying gaps in knowledge.

There are a dismaying number of coincidental meetings of characters.