chagrin
noun
a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
chagrinned
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past participleof chagrin.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof chagrin.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
chagrinnouna feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
Example Sentences
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Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly chagrinned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week publicity-hating President Tew was chagrinned to find his name very much in the news.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his Thanksgiving vacation he had missed five successive quail and gone home chagrinned.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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 Mary Newton Stanard
He was surprised and a little chagrinned by the weakness he had discovered; he could not understand how it had escaped him before.
From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan
