Definition of "chagrined" in English

verb

1. simple past and past participle of chagrin

adjective

1. Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.

   • She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.
   • 1921, Harold Hunter Armstrong as Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter Two, p. 115, “She’ll pay it,” Mr. O’Dell told Mr. Jenks with the chagrined expression of a restrained bulldog.