chagrin

Oh, and it won’t be called the LUV Shack, much to my colleague Aly Sider’s chagrin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The possibility of a rematch was also floated, with Mayer also suggesting Cameron had benefited from home advantage – to the champion's chagrin, as she said "talk is cheap".

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Green Lanterns are intergalactic heroes who use a special ring to harness their imagination and willpower to manifest objects, manipulate energy and fly, as we see Jordan do, to Stewart’s chagrin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

To my chagrin but not my surprise, no one else in the theater came with their tail tucked between their legs, covered by a trench coat.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

At this, I feel the chagrin on my face.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Hector the dog delights and chagrins them in equal measure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2018

However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to begin to set them right.

From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And yet I have my disappointments, my chagrins.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

But my facetious friend had his especial chagrins.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

But while durian lovers feast, Malaysian farmers are chagrined.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Scott was chagrined, she says, both because she had scheduled many meetings during other people’s dinner hours and because she hadn’t considered that fathers also want to have meals with their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

The judge was chagrined to learn that three of the rounds appeared to match the fatal bullet in the “Rust” movie set shooting, contributing to her decision to dismiss the charges against Baldwin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

Seventeen years ago she was chagrined when I started dating Ted.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

On his Thanksgiving vacation he had missed five successive quail and gone home chagrinned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week publicity-hating President Tew was chagrinned to find his name very much in the news.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly chagrinned.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was surprised and a little chagrinned by the weakness he had discovered; he could not understand how it had escaped him before.

From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan

"The joke's on us this time, and no doubt about it," said the also chagrinned, but more philosophically inclined "Gibs."

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard

Cecil's unfortunate encouragement of the night before—displayed more with a view to chagrining Sir Penthony than from a mere leaning toward coquetry—has fanned his passion to a very dangerous height.

From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton