chagrining

present participle of chagrin

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chagrining
Verb
  • The code, though, is currently often replete with disconcerting troubles.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Its mid-rise Harlow jeans are composed of a cotton and elastane blend, with a powder-blue hue and strategic hints of distressing down the leg.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This announcement, humiliating the involved member, is harmful.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And that display from our fans was mortifying.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The people who have the most money and power are the first to give up, and, frankly, that should be mortifying for them.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the company didn't raise its 2025 forecast, disappointing some investors.
    Seema Mody, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Apple is betting that the new models will bolster demand after disappointing iPad sales in the June quarter.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While stocks in the region, so far, have underperformed their emerging-market peers, letting down many investors, these lower valuations are attractive to KKR because of the positive macro trends.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • What Freeman wants to see more of from Carr and his offensive staff is making the tie go to the running back or letting down-and-distance dictate the decision.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, the former University of Miami standout did not want to be dealt, even publicly stating that just hours after the Dolphins’ embarrassing 28-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
  • For French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, the heist spotlights embarrassing security failings at one of France’s most venerable institutions.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Next up is a visit to the 3-6 Charlotte Hornets, who the Lakers may remember upsetting them in Los Angeles after February’s botched trade deadline fiasco involving Dalton Knecht and then-Hornets center Mark Williams.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Canada was gripped by the World Series last month and early in November as the Blue Jays, the country’s only MLB team, came agonizingly close to upsetting the Dodgers juggernaut.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Chagrining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chagrining. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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