515 examples of chagrined in sentences

One visitor of the period ingenuously observes"Certain persons will be chagrined to hear that Byron's mode of life does not furnish the smallest food for calumny."

Oftentimes he is obdurate when reproved in private for a fault, but when brought to the tribunal of the disapproval of other children, he is chagrined, repents, and makes atonement.

The calm indifference that our men display towards them leaves them hurt and chagrined.

As yet, they had not touched one of the enemy, and the young commandant was chagrined, anxious and annoyed.

You say you adore paper hanging" "No, I don't," he returned, chagrined.

"Where did you get that money?" asked Tom, surprised and chagrined.

They were chagrined by the flow of viewers away from television programming, but they hoped this shift could be managed and ultimately exploited.

Carroll was not a little chagrined.

Conceiving it rather hazardous to penetrate further in useless researches, I returned to this place, greatly chagrined at having been foiled in my attempts to explore the remains of antiquities in Shella, and other places.

The PIPER stands amazed, alarmed, chagrined.

She has overshadowed Colley Cibber, who is more dazed than chagrined at the dénouement, and she has proved more potent for the public amusement than all the beauties of "Jimminy, Gomminy," with its elephants, its jaw-waw, and its pearly Indian Sea.

She was chagrined to think that she had fallen so easily into Mrs. Richards's very obvious traps.

" Deeply chagrined to think he had overslept, Horace leaped to the floor, and soon the three boys were ready for breakfast.

Still he was chagrined that she made so little of his courage, and it was to stab her that he said, with subdued bitterness: "I always had a suspicion that I was that sort of person, and it is pleasant to have it pointed out by one's oldest friend.

I could see that he was deeply chagrined.

He was plainly chagrined when he and his bravos retired.

Judging from my own feelings, the women on both sides of the Atlantic must have been humiliated and chagrined, except as these feelings were outweighed by contempt for the shallow reasoning of their opponents and their comical pose and gestures in some of the intensely earnest flights of their imagination.

I confess that I felt somewhat chagrined in having what I considered my unanswerable arguments so summarily disposed of, and the serious impression I had made on the audience so speedily dissipated.

I posted away, therefore, to one of these advertisers, who by his proposals seemed to deal in thousands; and was not a little chagrined to find, that this general benefactor would have nothing to do with any larger sum than thirty pounds, nor would venture that without a joint note from myself and a reputable housekeeper, or for a longer time than three months.

When the castle fell, he was so chagrined and wept so bitterly that an old councillor tried to console him with all the resources at his command.

Midway, the bull stopped with two or three stiff-legged jumps and glared at her, a little chagrined, perhaps, at the sudden transformation from human foe to this grizzled hill-giant whom instinct had taught him to fear.

"He is a devilthat white caballo!" cried a chagrined voice from among the vaqueros crowding the ropes so that they bulged inward.

I think Richard was rather chagrined when she followed us out to get into the carriage; she was so dried-up and shrewish-looking, and wore such an Irish bonnet.

I saw by the clock in the lower hall that it was half an hour earlier than I had come down the morning before; at which I was secretly chagrined, for now there was no danger, alias hope, of seeing Mr. Langenau.

I admired it with all my heart; applauded the nursery eloquence of these sucking Mirabeaus and Camille Desmoulins as frantically as their own vanity could desire; and was even secretly chagrined that my own French was not yet fluent enough to enable me to take part in their discussions.

515 examples of  chagrined  in sentences