chagrined
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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
The lady’s chagrined reaction, as caught by a cameraman and transmitted to the giant screen at the rear of the stage, was like a little one-act play about access to stardom in pop’s parasocial age.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
A rather chagrined Mr Ko told a room full of reporters that he had been tricked into the agreement - and that he should not have negotiated with the KMT alone, without any advisers present.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 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
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