(n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.
(v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed.
(a.) Chagrined.
Example Sentences:
(1) The meeting, which was only open to the press for about 12 minutes, resembled most of Trump’s interactions with the black community to date: self-referential and placing style ahead of substance, to the chagrin of civil rights advocates.
(2) Imagine my surprise, my chagrin even, when the students overwhelmingly voted in favour of maintaining outright prohibition.
(3) To compound matters, Moyles has lost a million listeners since then and too many of the ones that hung around are over 30, much to the chagrin of the BBC Trust , which wants Radio 1 to concentrate on 15-29-year-olds.
(4) I’m frozen in the trilogy of the 1960s.” Wesker was chagrined that his later dramas (he wrote more than 40 plays) were not staged by the Court or the National.
(5) Ministerial chagrin will be matched by the fury of the formidable phalanx of government drivers who have a reputation as the guardians of Whitehall's most intimate secrets.
(6) Carter, who went in with his elbow, will go away for two minutes for that, but The King is a bit shaken up there, much to the chagrin of Rangers fans.
(7) The North Kensington centre organised solicitors to provide a round-the-clock police station advice service, to the surprise and often the chagrin of the local cops.
(8) Dunford, the former commander of US troops in Afghanistan, persuaded Obama to slow his withdrawal of US troops from America’s longest war, to the chagrin of many of Obama’s supporters.
(9) For Harewood and Clarke, there's both optimism and chagrin in equal amounts, so where does this leave the new talent being produced in places such as Identity?
(10) One woman asked him a pre-arranged question about rights for renters and, much to the chagrin of his handlers, after answering he decided to chat with her about her life, how her work as a psychologist was going and what her views on mental health care were.
(11) When they hear about the drug and all that they are angry with Transfield: ‘Why did they let them go away?’ They should have stayed.” To Sarah’s chagrin, what happened to her is now political issue as well.
(12) Much to Beijing’s chagrin, the US military has conducted several “freedom of navigation” operations, in which planes or ships pass within a 12-nautical-mile buffer around the Chinese installations.
(13) Xi also positioned himself as a foreign policy president, often to his neighbours’ chagrin, as China aggressively asserts its territorial claims in the South and East China seas.
(14) Stephanie Cutter (@stefcutter) On Monday, @ springsteen and @ barackobama will barnstorm across Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa, saying you gottavote.com November 1, 2012 Updated at 8.20pm GMT 7.46pm GMT Calling it "a surprise announcement," local paper the New York Times seems chagrined at Mike Bloomberg 's decision to endorse Obama : Mr Bloomberg’s endorsement was largely unexpected.
(15) To the chagrin of his wife, Mahoney recently developed an interest in moulds found on the human body.
(16) The affordable rent model was extended for three years in the recent spending review, much to the chagrin of housing leaders who only ever sought solace in the scheme for the short term.
(17) The place is going to be in virtual lockdown, much to the chagrin of Athens resident (and crisis commentator) Diane Shugart: Diane Shugart (@dianalizia) panepistimio, evangelismos, megaro musikis, ampelokipi, katehaki metro stns close at 10am tomorrow...not that you'd be able to go anywhere October 8, 2012 Diane Shugart (@dianalizia) it would be simpler if the police gave out of a list of places in athens where you can go tomorrow October 8, 2012 And in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, regular reader James Wilkins questions what good Merkel's visit will do.
(18) The Maddox rod (with limitations), transilluminated Amsler grid, and various entoptic phenomena (Purkinje vascular phenomenon, foveal chagrin, Haidinger's brushes, blue field phenomenon) are available as qualitative subjective tests.
(19) Much to the chagrin of the ex-communist president of the republic, Giorgio Napolitano – who did his best this week to stress his own complete condemnation of any such attempt of rehabilitation – the fact is that Italy still feels ambiguous about its fascist past.
(20) This has occurred much the chagrin of the online readers of these newspapers, who had grown accustomed to free access.
Spite
Definition:
(n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
(n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
(v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.
(v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Example Sentences:
(1) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
(2) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(3) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(4) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(5) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(6) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(7) By the GN of non-streptococcal etiology, AA's to the BLSE apparently of other specificity are obtained in some cases, in spite of the absence of antibodies to A-PS.
(8) In spite of the formation of the epoxide intermediate, no binding of [14C]d-limonene equivalents to mouse kidney proteins was observed.
(9) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(10) Clinical and inflammatory activity improved in both groups, but consistently more so in the auranofin group, in spite of the greater consumption of local steroids and NSAIDs in the placebo group.
(11) The reported case of fetal infection in spite of previous rubella vaccination of the mother does not discourage the use of rubella vaccine.
(12) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(13) The shapes of the curves for soleus and tibialis anterior are similar in spite of the different mechanical conditions of the two muscles.
(14) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
(15) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(16) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(17) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
(18) In spite of low fluoride content in their water supply, the findings revealed a generally low prevalence of caries experience (DMFT 1.26).
(19) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(20) By modifying the spatial distribution of afferents to the network, we demonstrate that the same basic model functions properly in spite of afferents with nonuniform background firing rates.