chagrined
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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
Condon is utterly captivating as a brutal villain, and no one plays a valiantly chagrined hero like Neeson, sorrowful and suffering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
A rather chagrined Mr Ko told a room full of reporters that he had been tricked into the agreement - and that he should not have negotiated with the KMT alone, without any advisers present.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
“No,” Teresita’s husband said, looking a little chagrined yet firm at the same time.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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