All 12 Uses of
indignant
in
Emma
- This was obliged to be repeated before it could be believed; and Mr. Knightley actually looked red with surprize and displeasure, as he stood up, in tall indignation, and said, "Then she is a greater simpleton than I ever believed her.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- Emma restrained her indignation, and only turned from her in silence.†
Chpt 2.7-8 *
- "That fellow," said he, indignantly, "thinks of nothing but shewing off his own voice.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- It was not in compliment to Jane Fairfax however that he was so indifferent, or so indignant; he was not guided by her feelings in reprobating the ball, for she enjoyed the thought of it to an extraordinary degree.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- And then, to prevent farther outrage and indignation, changed the subject directly.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- Mr. Weston meanwhile, perfectly unsuspicious of the indignation he was exciting, happy and cheerful as usual, and with all the right of being principal talker, which a day spent anywhere from home confers, was making himself agreeable among the rest; and having satisfied the inquiries of his wife as to his dinner, convincing her that none of all her careful directions to the servants had been forgotten, and spread abroad what public news he had heard, was proceeding to a family…†
Chpt 2.17-18
- In the few minutes' conversation which she had yet had with him, while Harriet had been partially insensible, he had spoken of her terror, her naivete, her fervour as she seized and clung to his arm, with a sensibility amused and delighted; and just at last, after Harriet's own account had been given, he had expressed his indignation at the abominable folly of Miss Bickerton in the warmest terms.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- Elton indeed!" cried Harriet indignantly.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- With great indignation did he continue to observe him; with great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- — She was most sorrowfully indignant; ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed to her—her affection for Mr. Knightley.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- Her arm was pressed again, as he added, in a more broken and subdued accent, "The feelings of the warmest friendship—Indignation—Abominable scoundrel!†
Chpt 3.13-14
- Its effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced: as soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs. Elton; the whole system of whose treatment of her, by the bye, has ever filled me with indignation and hatred.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong