chagrin

Example Sentences

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His notes “took over our dining room at home,” much to his wife’s chagrin, Banatao said in the oral history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The Basque manager rotated his pack heavily, to the chagrin of players like Vinicius Junior, who was benched on several occasions and hauled off early on others.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Much to Beijing's chagrin, those running many such scam centres are often Chinese themselves.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Three days go by like this and, to my chagrin, no one from the approximately twenty places at which I’ve applied calls me for an interview.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich