All 9 Uses of
indignant
in
Arrowsmith
- With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the "aggies" use the North Side Tennis Courts), but in private life he was less decorous.†
Chpt 3 *
- He leaned across two men to slap the indignant dean on the shoulder; he contradicted his neighbors; he sang a stanza of "I'm Bound Away for the Wild Missourai.†
Chpt 8
- With modest indignation she refused to be examined, and as he went away she could be heard weeping at the insult, while the preacher cursed him from the doorstep.†
Chpt 18
- "Well, did you like my spiel?" he said, after a suitable time of indignant waiting.†
Chpt 20
- "Of course you chaps are welcome, but really, with all we have to do I'm afraid we can't give you the attention you doubtless expect," he said indignantly.†
Chpt 33
- Outside, as the Special Board trudged away, Sondelius blared at Martin and the indignant Leora, "Yey, a fine fight!"†
Chpt 34
- She coaxed the indignant kitten to a mat, patted the pillow, and sat by him on the frowsy cot.†
Chpt 35
- At the pier in Brooklyn, to the astonishment and slight indignation of Miss Gwilliam, Mr. S. Sanborn Hibble, and Mrs. Dawson, Martin was greeted by reporters who agreeably though vaguely desired to know what were these remarkable things he had been doing to some disease or other, in some island some place.†
Chpt 36
- But the rapture of being allowed to work twentyfour hours a day without leaving an experiment at its juiciest moment to creep home for dinner, of plunging with Terry into arguments as cryptic as theology and furious as the indignation of a drunken man, carried him along, and he felt himself growing sinewy.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong