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These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter�John Raskob is a sportsman �but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt.

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Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly chagrinned.

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On his Thanksgiving vacation he had missed five successive quail and gone home chagrinned.

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Last week publicity-hating President Tew was chagrinned to find his name very much in the news.

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"The joke's on us this time, and no doubt about it," said the also chagrinned, but more philosophically inclined "Gibs."

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton