to my dismay, the list goes on and on but perhaps these few examples help

Group Support
... visiting some OA meetings. *To my dismay, I found the year-old meeting list I had was sorely out of date.* I called several contacts ...
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... To her dismay, she found that most parenting books were written for much younger
women, while books on midlife assumed the female reader had grown children. ...
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dis·may [diss máy]
vt (past dis·mayed, past participle dis·mayed, present participle dis·may·ing, 3rd person present singular dis·mays) (usually passive)
1. discourage somebody: to cause somebody to feel discouraged or disappointed
2. alarm somebody: to fill somebody with alarm, apprehension, or distress


n
1. feeling of discouragement: a feeling of hopelessness, disappointment, or discouragement
2. loss of courage: a sudden loss of courage or confidence



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Example: Most Americans express dismay about the abuse of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers.

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Some more examples:
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
[imp. & p. p. Dismayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismaying.]
Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
- Josh. i. 9.
What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
- Fairfax.
2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
Do not dismay yourself for this.
- Spenser.
So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed,
The lions roaring through the midnight shade.
- Pope.
Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul
No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.
- Pope.
Now the last ruin the whole host appalls;
Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.
- Pope.
v. i. 1. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
n. 1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay.
- Macaulay.
Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey,
And tear his helpless breast, o\'erwhelmed with wild dismay.
- Mrs. Barbauld.
2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

Ref: http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/dismay