chagrin
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As the boys grew up, they took to roughhousing around the house, much to the chagrin of their mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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
When a Kentucky constitutional convention finally did meet, it was dominated by conservatives who actually strengthened the proslavery laws, to Clay’s chagrin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Van Helsing did not seem to notice my silence; at any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor triumph.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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