Word of the Day: Chagrin
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
