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What's the word for the facial expression over an unexpected disappointment?

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00:00 What'S The Word For The Facial Expression Over An Unexpected Disappointment?
00:26 Answer 1 Score 16
01:12 Accepted Answer Score 13
02:06 Answer 3 Score 4
02:21 Answer 4 Score 4
02:41 Answer 5 Score 2
03:00 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 16


Possibly "doleful" would be appropriate,

doleful adjective: expressing sorrow; mournful. "a doleful look"

synonyms: mournful, woeful, sorrowful, sad, unhappy, depressed, gloomy, morose, melancholy, miserable, forlorn, wretched, woebegone, despondent, dejected, disconsolate, downcast, crestfallen, downhearted. See, Google doleful

Or perhaps, "crestfallen",

crestfallen adjective: sad and disappointed. "he came back empty-handed and crestfallen"

synonyms: downhearted, downcast, despondent, disappointed. See, Google crestfallen

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 13


Chagrined:

verb

(be chagrined)

Feel distressed or humiliated:

ODO

From 100 Words for Facial Expressions, by Mark Nichol, on dailywritingtips.com:

  1. Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

From A Bit of Blue Ribbon, by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, in Outing, Volume 27, 1896, page 5:

The girl with the parasol nodded, the marvelous blonde with the chagrined face merely turned her head.

From The Netherfield Affair, by Penelope Swan, 2015:

Elizabeth hid a smile as she saw Miss Bingley's chagrined face.

The text emoticon for chagrined is half grin; half grimace:

:-/

The emoticon immage:

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ANSWER 3

Score 4


There is no word for such a facial expression, except, perhaps, a grimace.

The feeling is dismay or consternation.




ANSWER 4

Score 4


I think "fall" would work but adding "in disappointment" would make it clearer:

His face fell in disappointment.

The link also has some other options for both disappointment (FC122) and embarrassment (FC121, right above).