Definitions for chagrin

chagrin cha·grin

Spelling: [shuh-grin]
IPA: /ʃəˈgrɪn/

Chagrin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in chagrin (acghinr).

Definitions for chagrin

noun

  1. a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.

verb (used with object)

  1. to vex by disappointment or humiliation:
  2. Obsolete. shagreen (def 1).

Origin of chagrin

1650-60; French

Examples for chagrin

"She might have been polite enough to invite me in," said Halbert, with chagrin.

To the chagrin of these 40 courageous online petitioners and their hoops-hungry brethren, March Madness is not a national holiday.

Nor was there in this her conclusion anything of chagrin, or pettish self-humiliation.

"He must have stolen it," muttered Halbert, looking after Robert with disappointment and chagrin.

This, he learned by watching May Bowen; however, to his chagrin, he never did get his grandmother's deviled crab recipe.

He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu.

And much to the chagrin of some in the Lone Star State, a lot of people seem to be buying it.

He has burrowed so deeply into his work that he hasn't even bothered to get a tan—much to New York's chagrin.

Yet, despite his chagrin, he realized that he could not send her from him forthwith.

I accosted him, when, to my chagrin and disappointment, he was a white man.

Word Value for chagrin
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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