Both Uses of
chagrin
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- Ever since his trip to America, he had wanted a house like that of one of the Mount Sinai doctors, and now, to her chagrin, he designed and built, next to the wooden house Shigeyuki was living in, a three-story concrete home for himself alone.†
Chpt 5chagrin = bad feeling such as embarrassment, disappointment, or annoyance
- Newspapers called them, to their chagrin, Genbaku Otome, a phrase that was translated into English, literally, as A-Bomb Maidens.
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
a bad feeling such as embarrassment, disappointment, or annoyance -- especially due to a disconcerting event, mistake or other blow to the ego