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- verb Present participle of
chagrin .
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Since many states had decided to send delegates because Washington was on the Virginia delegation, his absence would be “chagrining.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Since many states had decided to send delegates because Washington was on the Virginia delegation, his absence would be “chagrining.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Since many states had decided to send delegates because Washington was on the Virginia delegation, his absence would be “chagrining.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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It was chagrining to reflect that in her own context she had been quite as spoiled as Bobby was in his.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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My thrice-weekly email from the fabulous folks at Brooklyn Based was both exciting and chagrining this morning: a new bookstore in Brooklyn!
Archive 2008-07-31 Book Nerd 2008
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My thrice-weekly email from the fabulous folks at Brooklyn Based was both exciting and chagrining this morning: a new bookstore in Brooklyn!
New York Bookstore News Book Nerd 2008
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JB: I sometimes have that problem, too, and it's so chagrining since I see it among my students and it seems like such an easy problem to correct in their essays, if not so much in my own.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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Cecil's unfortunate encouragement of the night before -- displayed more with a view to chagrining Sir Penthony than from a mere leaning toward coquetry -- has fanned his passion to a very dangerous height.
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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For example: Life like a razor can shave you clean Or it cuts in a moment to leave you to bleed Not too bad a simile (I guess), but it's lead off for the song Fly High seems a bit too stark -- I continually find myself chagrining my last battle with the morning razor, and missing the next 15 or so seconds of the song.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009
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The filibuster: let's talk about it discussion with Guy Raz this afternoon on Weekend All Things Considered, after he evoked a chagrining personal admission*, we touched on a point that I think needs to be elevated from a background/insider's issue to absolutely first-tier consideration in mainstream political discourse.
James Fallows 2009
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