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Chagrin

June 3, 2022

chagrin

cha-grin / shə-grĭn

  noun 1. a feeling of annoyance or embarrassment because one has failed Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. Santiago Ramon y Cajal, 1852 – 1934   verb 1. to make someone feel embarrassed or humiliated If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
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