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  • If McKinnon was chagrined at having his thunder stolen he showed no signs of it. SAN ANDREAS
  • The chair of the committee did not appear chagrined by the compromises and delays.
  • I was lazy about copying them off my camera, and I was lazy about plugging it into my work mac for the first time (to recharge the battery) and it didn't properly unmount, so yesterday when I tried to take photos and the camera said "0 photos" I was more than sufficiently chagrined. Sunday Almosts
  • Chagrined as he was at what he termed his imbecile stupidity in not knowing his own heart all these past months, and convinced, as he also was, that Alice and Calderwell cared for each other, he could see no way for him but to play the part of a man of kindliness and honor, leaving a clear field for his preferred rival, and bringing no shadow of regret to mar the happiness of the girl he loved. Miss Billy -- Married
  • Well, I, of course, am always chagrined when I have to disagree with the Washington Post editorial board.
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  • Under the terms of a complicated and fraught negotiation, Chelsea had to pay £12mof his fee to a gazumped United, who will have felt a great deal less chagrined after Mikel's undistinguished performance here, one of many which have undermined the claims made on his behalf during his teenage years. As Carlo Ancelotti looks set for Chelsea exit, who will replace him? | Richard Williams
  • She realized, chagrined, that she had developed the Londoner's AN OLDER WOMAN
  • * Is chagrined to learn it is not a scoliotic condition of the spine secondary to osteoporosis * "Eloquence is deep thought expressed in clear words. With Mr. Obama the deep thought part is missing."
  • And are they eager to get this story out there, because they are chagrined by the coverage that's been emanating from New Orleans?
  • The chair of the committee did not appear chagrined by the compromises and delays.
  • But you can see why people are so chagrined, yes?
  • March 26th, 2010 at 9: 30 pm true fact: when the Clash recorded their “Pressure Drop” cover it was a relatively obscure Toots and the Maytals song, but after it was recorded but before it was released “The Harder They Come” movie and soundtrack got released and then they looked like Johnny-come-latelies and were chagrined and sad. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
  • Virus authors are, in fact, sometimes quite chagrined when someone puts a dangerous worm into circulation, because it can cause a public backlash that hurts the entire virus community.
  • In a preseason game against Jacksonville, Doleman used another move to sack the quarterback that left the Jags' Boselli chagrined.
  • I was chagrined or downcast by the contrast which the reality of a pensionnat de demoiselles presented to my vague ideal of the same community; I was only enlightened and amused; consequently, I felt in no disposition to complain to Mdlle. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • I was rather chagrined to discover there were inquiries for puppies going right back to October last year that I hadn't answered.
  • In a preseason game against Jacksonville, Doleman used another move to sack the quarterback that left the Jags' Boselli chagrined.
  • She was chagrined to learn that she had been discomposed not by 'a too exuberant financier, 'as she had surmised, but by, as "Waring" called Browning, the "subtlest assertor of the Soul in song. Life of Robert Browning
  • Surely the man who dispatched such droll rejection slips to thousands of chagrined writers should not be too dismayed to find himself paid back in kind-albeit with, as editors are wont to say, sincere regrets.
  • A day after she was caught tweeting about Las Vegas antics when she was supposed to be speaking at Juniata College, McCain tweeted (seemingly chagrined?) "Mi Vida Loca. Update: Wyclef hospitalized for exhaustion; Meghan McCain breaks silence after tweet scandal
  • He ducked beneath the shaggy branch of a punga tree, chagrined to realize he had made yet another loop past the hut. Once An Angel
  • Instead of being satisfied, Phillip is chagrined that the daughter was only playing the same game with him to force the same result.
  • With all the site's readers contacting their senators and reps and being so aggressively civic, I am chagrined to say that until a few days ago I hadn't gotten around to figuring out who represents me.
  • On Saturday, a group of about 50 black-clad anarchists seemed chagrined that the riots they envisioned for the IMF / World Bank protests never came to pass.
  • 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
  • Immense amounts of money were squandered, reputations were tarnished, and the consumer was left, as is so often the case, chagrined, puzzled, shortchanged, miffed.
  • By the faintly chagrined expression on his face, Darius could very safely assume that Asgard had received a similar reproof.
  • I rented ‘Almost Famous,’ and was chagrined to read that an enhanced director's cut edition is en route.
  • I'm chagrined to see this morning that although Blogger says everything is hunky dory with my posts, I can't see them on the public website - which is what led to the post below.
  • In fact, Williams was chagrined that Acuff-Rose bought the songwriting credits from Mulligan and throughout his life, Williams aided Mulligan financially to make up for it.
  • ‘I'm sure they were chagrined that I didn't endorse the ticket,’ he says.
  • I have been extremely distressed by the religious and ethnic violence that is widespread in certain parts of Indonesia and am chagrined that the government has not seen fit to protect innocent Indonesian citizens from that violence.
  • He was always a little chagrined that Roth was Jewish.
  • We are chagrined, we are contrite and we are genuinely grateful to you for correcting us.
  • 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
  • Frustrated and chagrined that they had been outfoxed yet again by the Comanches, the Fourth had no choice but to countermarch, bivouacking for the night at the site of the abandoned village.25 EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
  • His concern, given the context, seems overblown - even he thinks so, and he is chagrined by his own moral solicitude.
  • He was chagrined at his failure.
  • Doing a little poking around this morning on the real estate websites of uberbrokers Corcoran and Douglas Elliman, we're chagrined to note that Ms. Rich may have a point.
  • He imagined Godwin's chagrined shock, could he have overheard. THE LAST RAVEN
  • I'm glad to know that somebody else is as chagrined as I about the state of our restroom, although I think this doesn't go far enough, and doesn't address the most egregious behavior.
  • I was terribly chagrined to get the commentary after the debate.
  • I was somewhat chagrined, rereading it recently, to see just how much of my own early work takes off from this one novel.
  • Frustrated and chagrined that they had been outfoxed yet again by the Comanches, the Fourth had no choice but to countermarch, bivouacking for the night at the site of the abandoned village.25 EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
  • But he went on nationwide television and said that, and that he was chagrined by it and embarrassed by it.

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