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chagrined

adjective as in miffed

adjective as in shamed

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adjective as in shamefaced

adjective as in sheepish

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Example Sentences

When the body of Johnson was exhumed, the medical examiner was acutely chagrined when six .22 caliber rounds were removed from it.

Liberals excited at the way you take after Alan Greenspan will be chagrined at your critiques of the New Deal.

He was wearing a black suit, a silver tie, and a chagrined expression.

The song was written in 1929, but it was recorded by a later-chagrined Frank Sinatra in the 1940s.

Instead, the Paul Ryan talked about these days on the Hill is withdrawn, conflicted, chagrined, and unavailable.

We were naturally enough much chagrined, not knowing how much inconvenience and delay this incident might cause.

But he was feeling deeply chagrined and mortified over his last escapade.

Jacinth, though she said nothing, was feeling very chagrined indeed, and not a little bitter.

Yet when the vehicle drew up he was sensibly chagrined to recognise the port-wine cabman of the night before.

The Rebels, in hot pursuit, come down to the other bank, mortified and chagrined and enraged at his escape.

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On this page you'll find 207 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chagrined, such as: bewildered, bugged, confounded, confused, crushed, and discombobulated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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