Chagrining

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Annoying, vexing.

    "1780, George Washington, Letter to the President of Congress, in Jared Sparks (ed.), The Writings of George Washington, New York: Harper, 1847, Volume 7, pp. 11-12, Nothing can be conceived more chagrining, than for an officer to see himself destitute of every necessary, while another, not only in the service of the same government, engaged in defending the same cause, but even in the same regiment, and sometimes standing by his side in the same company, is decently if not amply provided."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of chagrin form-of, gerund, participle, present

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