chagrins
- present tense form of chagrin (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Hector the dog delights and chagrins them in equal measure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2018
However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew.
From Time Magazine Archive
But my facetious friend had his especial chagrins.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
Whatever you do, don't be anxious, nor fill your heads with little chagrins and little desires.
From The Two Paths by Ruskin, John
Whereto he answered, "O my lady, may Allah Almighty preserve thee to veil sins and countervail chagrins!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
