chagrin

Oh, and it won’t be called the LUV Shack, much to my colleague Aly Sider’s chagrin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

We have, as Melton notes much to Spaeny’s chagrin, “caught a vibe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

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

Three days go by like this and, to my chagrin, no one from the approximately twenty places at which I’ve applied calls me for an interview.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Whereto he answered, "O my lady, may Allah Almighty preserve thee to veil sins and countervail chagrins!"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

When the exile of my two friends became known, I was assailed by a whole host of chagrins of every kind; but a great misfortune renders us in a manner insensible to fresh troubles.

From Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Auguste Louis Baron de Stael-Holstein

All these forms of desire had to be overcome to escape from the distresses and chagrins of life.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

He was clearly chagrined to be partly foiled when Powell made the same argument.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

When I didn’t say anything, he added, “Astonished, chagrined, and saddened.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

He was surprised and a little chagrinned by the weakness he had discovered; he could not understand how it had escaped him before.

From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan

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