The phrase "chagrin about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are expressing a feeling of disappointment or embarrassment about something. Example: I could feel my chagrin about the situation as I realized I had forgotten to bring the paperwork to the meeting.
A bit of chagrin about having turned their plight into partisan nonsense would be encouraging.
She goes on to express mixed feelings of pride and chagrin about Linn's novel.
But in an interview with The Journal he said his chagrin about the angry tones raised over the Islamic center prompted him to meet other leaders.
Burns and I were speaking before white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, and before Trump expressed his chagrin about "the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments" commemorating Confederate figures.
Mrs. Gaines, a "stern and precise" home economics professor at an all-female institution called Wilton College, feels some chagrin about the mistreated monkeys, but her real dismay is prompted by the study's results, which contradict the child-rearing guidelines she imparts to her students.
Sections of American business and labor have expressed chagrin about Indian trade and investment policies — their unhappiness has been evident in letters to and from congressional members, at hearings on the Hill, and in advertisements being placed in advance of the prime minister's visit.
But what about "chagrin", derived from the Turkish for roughened leather, or scaly sharkskin.
"The chagrin you feel about having to look up an answer is punishment enough," he indulgently suggests.
The judicial system is more of a non-system.To the chagrin of hard-liners--about the only people to have profited from many years of a mainly stagnant economy and, for most people, falling living standards--these bad habits can be corrected.
Long review of documentary film "Le Chagrin et la Pitie" about the German Occupation of France, centered mostly in and around Clermont-Ferrand, which was a center of the French Resistance and also close to Marshall Petain's Vichy.
Another of France's leading literary accolades, the Prix Renaudot, was awarded to Daniel Pennac, above right, for "Chagrin d'École" ("School Blues"), about his experiences as a self-professed class dunce.
