as in sad
feeling unhappiness she was crestfallen when she found out she hadn't got the job

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Recent Examples of crestfallen When Will Zellers was first told by his advisor that he was traded last March, the Green Bay Gambler was crestfallen. Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 3 July 2025 But on Tuesday, the Royals found a way to pick up their crestfallen teammate in a 10-7 victory. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025 The Catalans went into the latest addition of the world’s biggest derby crestfallen after Tuesday’s painful Champions League semifinal second leg exit to Inter Milan. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 Giana Sabatino, a shelter worker at the Providence Animal Center in Pennsylvania, posted the clip of Sadie the dog looking crestfallen within the confines of a kennel. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crestfallen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crestfallen
Adjective
  • How’s this for a sad old country tune?
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The results were a shock to the family, but one that was tinged with a sad realization.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The conversation left her heartbroken.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Still heartbroken years after the split, Richard wears his anger and pain on his sleeve, but his only goal in life is to keep his daughter safe.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • He was told by Talent Relations that the creative team was unhappy with him.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The now-37-year-old wasn’t unhappy with her job.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The writer, known for her trailblazing work in confessional poetry, was clinically depressed and died by suicide at age 30.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Barbeau had been living alone, depressed and isolated since Jessica’s death.
    Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The upshot of this contempt is a season that layers hypocrisy as well as sanctimony over the grubby, tedious nihilism that made Dahmer so miserable to watch.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, Jawan took pity on the miserable lot over on Kele and put the disadvantage of having to carry 20 pounds of coconuts and cycle through 10 keys instead of just one on Hina instead, saying Kele had been through too much already.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team is soliciting toenail donations (sorry, only from Canadians) to study a type of cancer that arises far from our feet–lung cancer.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Ozzy definitely didn’t want people to feel sorry for him.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gannon was upset after Demercado dropped the football before crossing the goal line on what should have been a 72-yard touchdown that would have put Arizona up 28-6 early in the fourth quarter.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Those numbers might flip if Mizzou springs the home upset.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The manager who is so often the picture of calm had reddened eyes, a hint of melancholy in his voice.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But about two-thirds of the way through, Roofman makes a quiet, almost imperceptible shift toward melancholy.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Crestfallen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crestfallen. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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