Lexicographical Neighbors of Chagrinning
Literary usage of Chagrinning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Workers: An Experiment in Reality by Walter Augustus Wyckoff (1898)
"And if the truth must be told, I fear that the very success of my disguise is
somewhat chagrinning at times. There was no wrench on the next morning in ..."
2. The Workers: An Experiment in Reality by Walter Augustus Wyckoff (1897)
"And if the truth must be told, I fear that the very success of my disguise is
somewhat chagrinning at times. There was no wrench on the next morning in ..."
3. Theme-building by Charles Henshaw Ward (1920)
"... dictionary will bear them out; for their instinct is superior to a dictionary.
A coinage by a student—say, "a chagrinning experience"—may not be ques- ..."
4. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis for Students by James Bryan Herrick (1895)
"It is very chagrinning after you have made up your mind that you have to deal
with an acute inflammation of, we will say the stomach, to learn that the ..."
5. The Girl and the Game: And Other College Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams, Charles Scribner's Sons, Scribner Press (1908)
"... require a different course of study from the ordinary urban bareback rider
and flour- faced clown. It was very chagrinning. Perhaps it is not necessary ..."
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