Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective feeling vexed, especially due to feeling inferior or unworthy and hence embarrassed.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chagrin.

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  • adjective feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious

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Examples

  • Chloe nibbled on a strawberry, then placed it down on her plate, her expression chagrined.

    She’s So Dead to Us Kieran Scott 2010

  • Chloe nibbled on a strawberry, then placed it down on her plate, her expression chagrined.

    She’s So Dead to Us Kieran Scott 2010

  • We were just plain chagrined, but our chagrin was exceeded by our admiration for Canada's skill in handling its fiscal affairs.

    Around the United States in Twenty Minutes 1956

  • Mullen described himself as "chagrined" after the meeting.

    Secrets From Inside the Obama War Room 2010

  • I thought that Justin was kind of chagrined in having his remarks taken out of context.

    Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • Eddie is always so "chagrined" and always compared to Adonis.

    LOL: Twilight Intervention | /Film 2009

  • The word "chagrined" does not begin to describe the feeling that began to sweep over me.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Belinda 2008

  • The word "chagrined" does not begin to describe the feeling that began to sweep over me.

    Hitting the Wall. Susan 2008

  • Not that I particularly want it, "she added, and there was a kind of chagrined surprise in her voice," Which is odd, because when I was little, I thought that being made Heir was the highest possible pinnacle of success.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Not that I particularly want it, "she added, and there was a kind of chagrined surprise in her voice," Which is odd, because when I was little, I thought that being made Heir was the highest possible pinnacle of success.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

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  • La Peau de Chagrin, novel by Honore de Balzac, I thought it was French word and was surprised to hear it from American friend

    meaning is a kind of similar, it is sort of magic leather shrinking with every wish leather fulfilled to the owner

    May 16, 2009