chagrin

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

“This expansion is constantly being delayed, much to the chagrin of the business community and consumers,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Much to my chagrin, I failed — and if the data is any indication, living to a ripe old age isn’t as much of a given as I expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns Monticello and runs its public educational programs, gradually came around to acknowledging the full subjecthood of Sally Hemings, to the chagrin of some visitors.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

“Yeah. And much to my ever-loving chagrin, I am your tour guide.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

Great people were not to his eyes mighty gods and goddesses, seated loftily on a West-End Olympus, but fallible mortals, with chagrins about the court and grievances about invitations to Windsor.

From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever

Chateaubriand, embittered by the chagrins of political life, welcomed her with the old enthusiasm.

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

He sought consolation for chagrins at home in attachments abroad, first with a Madame Puisieux, a fifth-rate female scribbler, and then with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the rest of her life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" 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

During a “lightning round” of queries, Christie was chagrined when MacCallum asked him about government investigations of UFOs.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

But when he came to pay, he was chagrined to find so much of his money had gone to fill and overfill his stomach.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly chagrinned.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Vouchsafing a brief condescending glance and a rough "How are you," Mr. Bagley led the way into the eating-house, Davenport chagrinned on Larcher's account, and Larcher stricken dumb by the stranger's outrage upon his self-esteem.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

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