Verb (used with object) : The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bankers were a little chagrinned for not thinking of it first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bancomer meets reality in SMA] Reference

“I got a little carried away,” she confessed with a chagrinned smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [New BSG fiction] Reference

Shortly afterward, an apparently chagrinned Blair reached over and switched the microphone off.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Bush’s Swearing Ceremony - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference

He was surprised and a little chagrinned by the weakness he had discovered; he could not understand how it had escaped him before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

Home owners and business people chagrinned that they had not sold out when they had a chance, before the storms changed everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

"We were a week early," the chagrinned spokesman told reporters, adding quickly, "As always, better to give a greeting a week early than a week late.".    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. bungles birthday greeting to Queen Elizabeth] Reference

And Bill Gates must be somewhat chagrinned to find out he doesn't have a clue in the world what he's talking about when talking about those work visas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2007] Reference

You'll recall that John Grogan Marley & Me was chagrinned to discover the newspaper where he worked could and did put out a book of his columns with his name on them against his wishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of --What Do You Mean, 'Term of Copyright'?] Reference

Rocky and I wondered if their parents let them out like that and we were chagrinned to think that the clothes prostitutes wore in the late 70s and 80s are now ordinary fashion for young girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Even Tom must have felt bitterly chagrinned when he saw the paper go swirling off, without having had a chance to test its ability to deceive Dock Phillips, and perhaps lead him into confessing his guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference

And begins to say, is this not Mr. Wendell Wilkie, and President Roosevelt says no, you have reached Franklin Roosevelt, and Churchill is very embarrassed, very chagrinned and Roosevelt is very cool about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship] Reference

| Reply | Permalink pssst - don't tell anyone, but I think the east coast liberal establishment is really chagrinned that a midwesterner is going to be president and will get lot of help from the South getting there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: Joint Chiefs Wouldn't Approve Of McCain's Petraeus Attack On Obama] Reference

I was rather chagrinned and deeply offended that someone so smug, so invincible, so above the system, had played it so expertly, using his power, his prestige and whatever else he wielded in his world of manipulations to get exactly what he wanted, exploiting everything around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gautam Hans] Reference

Hank, of course, is chagrinned -- he wants Bobby to follow in his footsteps, not in Fido's trail of droppings -- but not half as mortified as he becomes when he discovers that dog doo has made Earth Cleaners' entrepreneur Johnny Knoxville wildly rich, as the Hills visit him in his McMansion, stocked with videogame machines and an oversized aquarium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Return of the King - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference

Oh, and yes, I did pass the Miso Ramen Challenge, and my somewhat chagrinned expression graces the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rochester City Newspaper] Reference

Peter Slade was much chagrinned to have the victory snatched from him, and began to mutter something about the race not being a fair one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall] Reference

In the latter, workers toil at factories owned by Austrian businessmen who are chagrinned that labor costs aren't as low as they used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference

Yes, I was somewhat chagrinned to learn that I really loved something made by them, but their cordial cherries (Eden Kirsch) are to die for!.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

"Legally, I'm entitled to this and I'm frankly very disturbed and chagrinned at the fact that I have not gotten it," Hector Quintana said previously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM] Reference

Vouchsafing a brief condescending glance and a rough "How are you," Mr. Bagley led the way into the eating-house, Davenport chagrinned on Larcher's account, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference

What I was judging is a unit out of control, in terms of responsible citizenship on a campus that makes large claims for ethical and moral responsibility and suggests that its leaders, from coaches and athletics through people in the administration building, would be chagrinned and aghast if they heard racial slurs being hurled about, if they saw people publicly urinating on statues of James B. Duke on campus, if people were marauding through their offices in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference

It’s you who should be chagrinned about succumbing to an obviously false indictment; presumably powered by your environmentalist passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit] Reference

Lake Baikal is the world’s largest lake, a fact that kind of surprised me (and chagrinned my Michigander friend) when I discovered it a few years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lake Baikal Warming at 3x Rate of Surface Air « Skid Roche] Reference

She couldn’t bear to think that he might be sitting on the other side of the aisle chagrinned and embarrassed, wishing he had never invited her to Oahu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aloha Quilt] Reference

Husbands and boyfriends were chagrinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surreal. | Mind on Fire] Reference

I am chagrinned that I don't know Dave's Kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.] Reference

In the locker room, the players were chagrinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Me: chagrinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

Ziff was chagrinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laughter Of The Chicken-Wieners] Reference