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Recent Examples of chagrin
Noun
Fan’s performance appears to have chagrined at least one local government. Chris Lau, CNN Money, 27 July 2025 The airline recently announced an end to its very popular free baggage check policy, much to customers’ chagrin. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 July 2025
Verb
When the group got back together in 2013 for a reunion tour, Herndon didn't join them — much to the chagrin of the band's fans. Cindy Watts, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Outside of the Permian, Chevron and Exxon plan to focus much of their growth through oil offshore Guyana, which Exxon discovered a decade ago, now that Chevron bought into the partnership via Hess—much to Exxon’s chagrin and, after legal arbitration, eventual acceptance. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chagrin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chagrin
Noun
  • Biden and, by extension, Harris will be remembered even and perhaps especially by Democrats as symbolizing disappointment and defeat.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Added to this was a disillusioning disappointment with the mechanisms of the art world.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His heart was racing, his breathing distressed.
    Paul Sisson, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His heart was racing, his breathing distressed.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Sacks, a PayPal Mafia member and veteran Silicon Valley investor, is just the sort of titan of industry this town routinely devours and humiliates — from Rex Tillerson to, well, Elon Musk.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And whether the Carolina Panthers are just stuck in an endless loop of embarrassment, one that alternately humiliates and enrages their fans.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There have been frustrations over how long the process has taken, with the leadership uncertainty further complicated by the exit of CEO Alex Mahon over the summer.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Poor Harriet, a gallery assistant who has been harassed since the pilot, gets the brunt of Laura’s frustration.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Until now, the only intervention has been antibiotics, which in turn upset the koala's delicate digestive tract – one fine-tuned to solely eat eucalyptus leaves.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This upset many people, like Greg Clem, who has lived on Timberline since 2016.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There doesn’t seem to be anything untoward or disconcerting about this interest in physical health and well-being.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Married women, however, report higher stress, less freedom, and greater dissatisfaction.
    Vanessa Bennett, SELF, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The mass protests started in response to the ban—which was lifted on Tuesday, September 9—but have since broadened into an expression of dissatisfaction with the country's political leadership and alleged corruption.
    Robert Birsel Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lawmakers, understandably, were displeased.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The death penalty is part of it, but stomping on civil rights is at the heart of it — ruthlessly exploiting anxiety about crime to aim repression at whatever displeases him, from immigration protesters to murderers.
    Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Chagrin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chagrin. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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