have chagrined
- present perfect of chagrin.
Example Sentences
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The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
But the California attorney has also pursued causes that have chagrined her fellow feminists.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2016
Matthew Arnold spoke of his commentaries on England as the writing of a man chagrined; but what could have chagrined Hawthorne there?
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
I thought, and felt that this would have chagrined me greatly, for I hoped to impress her especially by my sermon.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
