chagrin
- a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- to vex by disappointment or humiliation: The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply.
- Obsolete. shagreen(def 1).
Origin of chagrin
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
Liberals excited at the way you take after Alan Greenspan will be chagrined at your critiques of the New Deal.
He was wearing a black suit, a silver tie, and a chagrined expression.
Instead, the Paul Ryan talked about these days on the Hill is withdrawn, conflicted, chagrined, and unavailable.
But I was chagrined when a critic praised some of my dialogue when it was simply a phrase I borrowed from a real-life Chicago pol.
Historical Examples
Steve exclaimed, in a chagrined voice, as he stared at his prize.
With Trapper Jim in the North WoodsLawrence J. Leslie
Chagrined that I could not discover the thing, I went into the library, thinking that it might be there.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
"The very scantiest," returned Gian Maria, in chagrined accents.
Love-at-ArmsRaphael Sabatini
I saw that he was chagrined, angry, but not really heart-hurt.
MelomaniacsJames Huneker
And presently, chagrined with failure, the culprit was before his grandsire.
chagrin
- a feeling of annoyance or mortification
- to embarrass and annoy; mortify
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for chagrined
chagrin
v.
1660s (implied in chagrined), from chagrin (n.). Related: Chagrined; chagrining.
chagrin
n.
1650s, "melancholy," from French chagrin "melancholy, anxiety, vexation" (14c.), from Old North French chagreiner or Angevin dialect chagraigner "sadden," of unknown origin, perhaps [Gamillscheg] from Old French graignier "grieve over, be angry," from graigne "sadness, resentment, grief, vexation," from graim "sorrowful," of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German gram "angry, fierce"). But OED and other sources trace it to an identical Old French word, borrowed into English phonetically as shagreen, meaning "rough skin or hide," of uncertain origin, the connecting notion being "roughness, harshness." Modern sense of "feeling of irritation from disappointment" is 1716.