chagrin.

Distress or annoyance arising from embarrassment, failure, or frustrated expectations.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• to someone’s chagrin
• much to his chagrin

On the page

To her chagrin, the door opened only after the visitors had left.

He concealed his chagrin beneath a joke about bad luck.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.