chagrin

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

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 ● Mar. 10, 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

To his chagrin, Willey quickly recognized that the natural “knolls” were, in truth, human-made "temple-type platform mounds," evidence of a more materially advanced culture than he had imagined possible for the era.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

But what pains and chagrins were not compensated by the bit of lemon-colored ribbon and its small meed of distinction!

From The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

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 English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe

And yet I have my disappointments, my chagrins.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

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

Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

Peter Slade was much chagrinned to have the victory snatched from him, and began to mutter something about the race not being a fair one.

From The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

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