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chagrin

[shuh-grin] / ʃəˈgrɪn /




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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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

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

Soraya joined me at San Jose State the following year and enrolled, to her father’s chagrin, in the teaching track.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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