Sample Sentences for
chagrin
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    Newspapers called them, to their chagrin, Genbaku Otome, a phrase that was translated into English, literally, as A-Bomb Maidens.  (source)
    chagrin = bad feeling such as embarrassment, disappointment, or annoyance
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    "Three days' penalty with work." ... "What for, citizen chief?" asked Shukhov with more chagrin than he felt in his voice.  (source)
    chagrin = annoyance
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    The chagrin in her tone was not because I was upset, but because she did not like being wrong.  (source)
    chagrin = ill feeling of embarrassment
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    Wrong time, wrong place, much to Bree's chagrin.  (source)
    chagrin = bad feeling such as embarrassment, disappointment, or annoyance
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    Seventeen years ago she was chagrined when I started dating Ted.†  (source)
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    Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.†  (source)
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    I had not been previously acquainted with the project, or I should have prevented it, being naturally averse to the assuming of state on any occasion; and I was a good deal chagrin'd at their appearance, as I could not avoid their accompanying me.†  (source)
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    She drew back quickly with a cry, half of fear, half of chagrin.  (source)
    chagrin = embarrassment
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    " When I didn't say anything, he added, "Astonished, chagrined, and saddened.†  (source)
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    She then makes a proposition, which is, in effect, that she has seen us much together; that it appears to her that I am for the passing time the cat of the house, the friend of the family; that her curiosity and her chagrins awaken the fancy to be acquainted with their movements, to know the manner of their life, how the fair Gowana is beloved, how the fair Gowana is cherished, and so on.†  (source)
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    Then they went from jeweler to jeweler, searching for a necklace like the other, trying to recall it, both sick with chagrin and grief.  (source)
    chagrin = bad feeling due to a mistake
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    "Interesting," I muttered, chagrined that I secretly watched Gossip Girl on a regular basis.†  (source)
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    Once settled, he realized they were the Keepers, and to his chagrin that meant Gally was among them.†  (source)
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