chagrin
Example Sentences
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Not even Dickensian “A Christmas Carol” visitations by the specters of his father and an Indonesian business partner negotiating a project involving a sandstone reservoir with “significant extraction costs” diminish his concomitant guilt and chagrin.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
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
To the chagrin of professionals, many people lean on popular AI chatbots to help solve their medical mysteries, interpret labs and provide psychological therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
Much to Beijing's chagrin, those running many such scam centres are often Chinese themselves.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
Ben was acutely aware that the couples at the other tables were staring at them with a mixture of curiosity and chagrin.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
