(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.
Vexation
Definition:
(n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.
(n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.
(n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can be critical of the no quality of the performance, the naive mistakes sometimes but not in front of the goal.” He would admit vexation at the result.
(2) Along the way his deployment of Ki Sung-yueng as a deep-lying, smooth-passing, ball-retaining, central midfielder left Yaya Touré a study in vexation.
(3) For his part, Evelyn never concealed the boredom and vexation Bron caused him.
(4) Gametocytes from 2 experimentally infected lizards were infective to L. vexator during the course of the acute infection.
(5) As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the Nasa budget and the energy sector.
(6) Patients with a hysterical personality structure who are dominated by Oedipus or phallic problems and who, by inhibiting the sexual impulse, frequently suffer from sexual disorders may, in a situation experienced in such an atmosphere of conflict, regress to the stage of urethral erotism; at this stage, the symptoms serve as self-punishment as well as reduction of the fear of guilt and punishment; the unconscious vexation and frustration manifest themselves in these symptoms.
(7) It is suggested that the vexator series of the subgenus originated in the Nearctic Region and extended southwards along the Andes (peruensis series) whereas the oswaldoi series is a South American assemblage originating in Gondowana.
(8) A "hassle index" identified three dimensions of vexation in practice: problems with running a practice, medical conditions of patients, and social characteristics of patients.
(9) Labour MP Simon Danczuk recently tweeted his vexation after encountering “beggars” close to a pub: “Begging – counted 4 beggars between Rochdale Exchange & Wheatsheaf entrances last Tuesday.
(10) She makes a face that is a mixture of diligence and vexation – she was eating plenty of fruit and vegetables already.
(11) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
(12) Transmission studies carried out in the laboratory incriminated Phlebotomus vexator occidentis as a vector of a species of trypanosome that infects Bufo boreas halophilus.