Chagrin

(sha-grīn') (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr., from chagrin or chagrain, shagreen, a particular kind of rough and grained leather; also a rough fish-skin used for graters and files, hence, figuratively for a gnawing, corroding grief. See SHAGREEN.] Ill-humor; vexation; peevishness; fretfulness.

Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

Synonyms—Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet.—CHAGRIN, VEXATION, MORTIFICATION. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, &c. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results from wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and in its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification. “Vexation arises chiefly from our wishes and views being crossed; mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two.” Crabb.