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Another word for chagrin

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Noun

  1. Self-conscious distress

    See also:

    pain

Verb

  1. To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed

    Idioms:
    See also:

    pain

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Another word for chagrin

Noun
  1. See also:

    shame

    embarrassment

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Sentence Examples

  • Having been beaten in a trial of soothsaying, Calchas died of chagrin or committed suicide.

  • Overwhelmed with chagrin, Formosus died on the 4th of April 896.

  • To his infinite chagrin, during this brief absence his father died.

  • His appreciation of Grant, and his sympathy with the chagrin he suffered after this battle, cemented the friendship between the two.

  • He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call him 'Your Majesty,' but who, to his chagrin, got no title from me!

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