chagrin
Example Sentences
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To my chagrin, being young and self-involved, as well as working a grueling summer job, I remember that I was almost oblivious to the crisis.
Monteiro, who grew up in Rocinha, recalls the early days of "safari-like" tourism in the favela, when visitors guided by outsiders would show up in open-air jeeps, much to the chagrin of locals.
From Barron's
There was some self-pity creeping in, and not a little chagrin at being stupid enough to just let them run when I didn’t know the country.
From Literature
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
His notes “took over our dining room at home,” much to his wife’s chagrin, Banatao said in the oral history.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
