32 Verbs to Use for the Word chagrin

" Fullaway made no attempt to conceal his chagrin and vexation.

I presented myself at the ticket-office to buy a ticket for Meaux, and you can imagine my chagrin when I was asked for my papers.

Thus will be studied the comfort and enjoyment of the guests, and no lady, in leaving the house, will be able to feel the chagrin and disappointment of not having been invited to "stand up" in a dance during the whole of the evening.

Goldstein was glad to vent his chagrin on the producer.

He had suffered great chagrin over the loss of the letter which was to have played such an important part in the coming trial; sober afterthoughts had convinced him of the possibility of Veronica's connection with enemy agents; he had come to believe it implicitly now.

And when, toddling along, we reached the edge of the lake and she finally spoke, conceive my chagrin when I discovered that what she was talking about was stars.

While she was thus gracefully employed, the agonized artist, his face suffused with blushes and fairly ghastly with an enforced smile, was painfully struggling to abstract himself, by changing the places of things, shifting the position of his easel, prying in a lost way into lumbered corners, and pretending to be in search of something, ingenious, but unable to disguise his chagrin.

He appeared, however, not to notice it, but, after the compliments of the day had passed, entered into an easy and agreeable conversation on the pleasures of societya conversation perfectly adapted to my taste, and calculated to dissipate my chagrin and pass the time imperceptibly.

that retrospect doubled my chagrin instead of diverting it.

Arthur Weldon was slyly enjoying the chagrin visible upon the faces of Mr. Merrick's three pretty nieces.

She expressed much chagrin when I tendered my regret, and amazed me by affirming that Ajax had cordially consented to be present.

Va, je prétends bien te faire oublier tous tes chagrins.

" "I appreciate your chagrin, my dear Bradbury," rejoined Mortlake suavely, "but accidents will happen, you know.

Mr. Thomasson had much ado to mask his chagrin under a show of contemptuous incredulity.

He had also mastered his chagrin at the triumph which her presence here, and under these dramatic circumstances, had given his adversary.

Exceedingly mortified, Maggie was leaving the room, when, noticing her evident chagrin, Mr. Carrollton came to her side, and laying his hand very respectfully on hers, said kindly: "It is my fault, Maggie, keeping you up so late, and I only send you away now because those eyes are growing heavy, and I know that you need rest.

This last defeat bore so harshly on the master of Belles Demoiselles, that the daughters, reading chagrin in his face, began to repent.

General Richman and lady took every method in their power to remove my chagrin and atone for the absence of my fair one; but ill did they succeed.

But in splendid desperation, with all her soul's battle in her eyeshorror, love, defiance, and rending chagrin striving and smiting, she sprang after him into the open, and clutched and twined his arms.

He was saved the chagrin of striking out to his deadly rival, but the hit he knocked was only a little fly that the pitcher caught.

However, there was no refusing Valencia anything; so he got his hat, but with so bad a grace, that Valencia saw his chagrin, and from mere naughtiness of heart amused herself with it by talking all the way of nothing but Major Campbell.

He had the inveterate habit of being at his ease under all circumstances, but she had felt that he took these great people with a really exaggerated lack of seriousness, answering their chat at random, and showing no chagrin when he was detected in the grossest ignorance about the latest move of the French Royalist party, or the probabilities as to the winner of the Grand Prix.

" Instantly a fresh volley of laughter rattled from the landingsuch clear, hearty laughter that it infected me, spite my chagrin.

With a mighty effort he swallowed his chagrin and, disregarding the insult to himself, replied: "Very well.

She wanted her husband to winnot because she had any ambition to shine as "Lady-Mayor," but because she did not wish Thaddeus to incur disappointment or undergo the chagrin of a public rebuke.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  chagrin