chagrin

How To Use chagrin In A Sentence

• But to my chagrin I kept feeling a certain irritation. Times, Sunday Times
• Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India!
• Then he let the cony-catcher go and returned home, drunken with chagrin and concern as with wine. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Lyttelton "could have cried with chagrin and disappointment '. THE GUARDSMEN
• Still, much to your chagrin, you find yourself occasionally tickled by the screwball antics of the likable cast of characters.
• In fact, you might be surprised to find yourself throwing out some choice lines based on what happens on the baseball diamond, to the chagrin of your buddy sitting next to you.
• Imagine the chagrin of a young team that has spent several practices learning a conventional offensive play only to meet this pattern.
• But it never seems to have occurred to the court of committees that there was any danger to be apprehended from the Dutch, so that they were all the more astonished and chagrined at the failure to establish trade with the Moluccas, where the natives were so friendly to the The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
• When I came downstairs and found the door open, I was a bit chagrined, and instantly declared, like a million men before me, that I Was Not Going to Pay For Heating The Whole Outdoors.
• chagrined at the poor sales of his book