Word: chagrinned
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...singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most of her younger and graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied by her rabid interest, could only mutter; "She gets so damn excited over some dusty records...
...York Times. .The Times received a United Press story which said "McCarthy claimed," and a copyreader changed it to "declared." But to the Times's deep "chagrin," it was misread in the composing room, set as "disclosed," and ran thus in subsequent editions...
Instead, to our intense chagrin...
...sitters," who crouched near the receiver eight hours a day taking bets from the Big City across the Hudson. But after the Kefauver committee blabbed the tale to the world on television, New Jersey's Republican Attorney General Theodore Parsons went into prolonged spasms of surprise, horror and chagrin...
...unconcealed chagrin, he kept up his post-election record of never breaking 90 during the entire weekend. (Before he became President, he often made the low 80s.) His driving was as sound as ever, but his putting was way off form. He had his toughest time on the Club's twelfth, the "make or break hole." It is a nasty, short hole (155 yards) with an elevated tee and a stream running between tee and green. Ike plunked his first shot into the water. Undismayed, he teed-up another, laid it twelve feet from the pin, was down...