Word: chagrined
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...bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great disgust of Sir Basil, turns out to be the son of another father and immediately sets about marrying the opera singer's offspring. To Sir Basil's further chagrin, the U. S. illegitimate, whose coy and daring cajoleries have made her his "favorite little bastard," falls in love with his solicitor; when she has achieved her father's consent to their marriage, she calls the curtain down by prettily observing: "Well, anyway, it will be the first wedding...
...boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
Meanwhile the police, to their intense chagrin, continued powerless to find the secret hiding place of M. Daudet who, last week, contributed daily an impudent, secretly written article to L'Action Française, reviling and ridiculing the Cabinet...
...Woof, Woof", went a creature cloistered in a sample of a main tent. I gave Oscar the necessary ten cents and up he went to do his daily good turn to the local faksters. His crest fallen features quivered with chagrin as he rejoined the family group before the door of the side show. "It was no Indian", he cursed, "It was only his wife...
...fervid personal reaction on the part of the critics as well as an intimate knowledge of Mr. Bennetts psychology. Assuming, then, that "Lord Raingo" is all it is intended to be, the reader's disappointment mounts through nearly 400 pages from mild distaste to a peak of pure chagrin and positive depression...