All 12 Uses of
indignant
in
Main Street
- Trailing at the end of the line Carol was indignant at the prodding curiosity of the others, their manner of staring at the poor as at a Zoo.†
Chpt 1
- In the aisle beside her is an extremely indignant parrakeet in a cage.†
Chpt 3
- Mr. Dawson was indignant.†
Chpt 4
- There are in every large chicken-yard a number of old and indignant hens who resemble Mrs. Bogart, and when they are served at Sunday noon dinner, as fricasseed chicken with thick dumplings, they keep up the resemblance.†
Chpt 6
- She became self-conscious; occasionally she was indignant that she should always have to petition him for the money with which to buy his food.†
Chpt 6
- Solid though his enthusiasms were in the matter of medicine—his admiration of this city surgeon, his condemnation of that for tricky ways of persuading country practitioners to bring in surgical patients, his indignation about fee-splitting, his pride in a new X-ray apparatus—none of these beatified him as did motoring.†
Chpt 16
- She was indignant that Carol should not be utterly fulfilled in having borne Kennicott's child.
Chpt 21 *indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- But they were definite enough, and indignant enough.†
Chpt 22
- Vida was indignant; Carol was apologetic; they talked for another hour, the eternal Mary and Martha—an immoralist Mary and a reformist Martha.†
Chpt 22
- Uncle Whittier was nasally indignant "CERTAINLY!†
Chpt 24
- She turned to him with an indignant, "It's disgusting that this is all you have to look at."†
Chpt 29
- She had to roost in a hall-room in a moldy mansion conducted by an indignant decayed gentlewoman, and leave Hugh to the care of a doubtful nurse.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong