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chagrining

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Present participle of chagrin

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One argument, apparently, is that the very blatancy of what he seems to have done suggests he genuinely did not think his actions improper.The prime minister's camp is chagrined by the silence of his Likud colleagues since Mr Appel was indicted.

Appalled by the loss of life, and chagrined that their warnings against drastic action were ignored, Egypt's long-standing allies in the West are now likely to shun General Sisi and his government.

Football is as close to fighting a war as one can come without guns and explosives.The generals would thus be chagrined to hear Mr Freeney say that while playing football has made him better at the video game, the video game has not affected his real-world performance.

Keen investors in Russia will be chagrined to learn that the country ranks just above Congo-Brazzaville.

Adding insult to injury, Mr Clinton then publicly blamed the Arab leaders for not going far enough.Meanwhile, America's Arab allies, such as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, were chagrined that they had not been consulted over Jerusalem.

Chagrined by their lack of support when Libya was placed under sanctions, he has increasingly shunned Arabs in favour of Africans.

Chagrined, the opposition say they will go ahead and convene an assembly anyway.American officials defend the decision to bypass the opposition on several grounds.

But they are chagrined by close comparisons.

During a data-recovery cruise in April 2006, the researchers were chagrined to find that only 4 of the 12 instruments could be recovered.

Condé, hearing of these during the Fronde's last days in Paris, furiously reproached Chavigny, who, shocked and chagrined, fell ill and died.

In accordance with this advice certain proposals were put before Leopold to which he refused to agree; consequently the Saxon troops withdrew from the imperial army, a proceeding that led the chagrined emperor to seize and imprison Schöning in July 1692.

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