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chagrin

[shuh-grin] / ʃəˈgrɪn /




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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

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

His notes “took over our dining room at home,” much to his wife’s chagrin, Banatao said in the oral history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The government has also been forced to cut certain subsidies to yeshivas, much to the chagrin of the ultra-Orthodox parties.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

“Not those letters,” Corporal Whitcomb corrected, plainly enjoying the chaplain’s chagrin.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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