chagrin

Example Sentences

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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

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

But to his chagrin, and subsequent terror, that sign was not forthcoming.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols