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  • And over time he worked himself into a choler of self-righteous indignation that was impossible to keep bottled up.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • "Righteous indignation" is what Brother Gerald called it.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • "I did not steal your notebook," the indignant Hoo explained.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust
  • He just stood staring down at the open book, shivering with indignant anger.   (source)
    indignant = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • Soda looked back at him indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with annoyance at something unjust
  • Mr. Erskine departed, protesting his innocence — indignant, but also shaken.   (source)
    indignant = angry or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • Edgar's mother, on the other hand, would storm around the house, indignant at the idiocy of owners, their laziness, their lack of compassion, flinging papers, slamming doors.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • What's her names asks Serena indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • "What do they mean, 'Aryan descent'?" he said indignantly.   (source)
  • After relentless questioning about why he was changing his testimony and Chapman's suggestion that someone was putting him up to this, Ralph became indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angry or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • "But there is something illegal about dangling an infant out of a tower window," Justice Strauss said indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • We exploded on the surface, in the middle of the Santa Monica Bay, knocking a surfer off his board with an indignant, "Dude!"   (source)
    indignant = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  •   "For one thing, Miss Maudie can't serve on a jury because she's a woman-"
      "You mean women in Alabama can't-?" I was indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angered at something unjust
  • He was working himself up to indignation.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • Kit flared, indignant as much at his tone as at the dread word he uttered so carelessly.   (source)
    indignant = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • For a while we were indignant because no one from the office came upstairs the entire morning;   (source)
    indignant = angry or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • “I've heard there's one group already writing a paper claiming the whole thing's a hoax.”
    “How could they?” I asked indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • He's planning to feed you to his friend like a fly to a frog, so how about a little indignation?   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • The other girl put her hands on her hips indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • We were horrified and indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angered at something unjust or wrong
  • From disappointment, I gradually ascended the emotional ladder to haughty indignation, and finally to that state of stubbornness where the mind is locked like the jaws of an enraged bulldog.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • "That's a ridiculous law," said Milo, quite indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • ...he added, "Besides, I have never done anything in my whole life that would make me beg."
    "Would you rather let the kids starve?" Mom asked, indignant and, as usual, making a ton of sense.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something that is wrong
  • (Indignantly) What's the matter with you all!   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • Pesao looks at his face, giggles and flings another pebble at the hens, who scatter indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with annoyance at being wronged
  • "London isn't a Hole," said Polly indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = angered at the injustice of his statement
  • "Don't you dare talk to me that way!" she replied indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = angered by the wrong
  • And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • it was a genuine, indignant astonishment.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • God was indignant as all get-out.   (source)
  • "I'd like to suggest that it be named for my husband," Mrs. Poole had said, and looked around, indignant that no one else had made this suggestion.   (source)
  • Instead, she took the chair and left the room, bristling with indignation.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • Your indignation is very natural.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust
  • The news was received with indignation. The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust
  • ...the natural and righteous indignation I feel at the sight of a criminal devoid of the least spark of human feeling.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • Jim bellowed indignantly, "Who don't love Daisy?"   (source)
    indignantly = with anger at something unjust or wrong
  • She only felt a furious surge of indignation that he should think her such a fool.   (source)
    indignation = anger at being wronged
  • "I am not hiding," exclaimed King Pellinore indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • "I wasn't snooping," said Katie indignantly.   (source)
  • He fairly choked with indignation.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • I was indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angered at something unjust or wrong
  • "Those Pye girls are cheats all round," said Diana indignantly   (source)
    indignantly = angered or annoyed at something unjust
  • 'Of course not — I'm not a kiddie,' said the boy, indignantly;   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • Mrs. Morel was always indignant with the drunken men that they must sing that hymn when they got maudlin.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something wrong
  • [Jack looks indignantly at him, and leaves the room.]   (source)
    indignantly = angered at something unjust or wrong
  • "My head is ringing like a bee tree," said a sullen little voice over their heads, and Mowgli slid down a tree trunk very angry and indignant,   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
  • The general flushed with indignation as he spoke.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • [In a tone of indignation.]   (source)
  • The crowd jeered and laughed; but the young prince sprang to the gate with his face flushed, and his eyes flashing with indignation, and cried out,-- "How dar'st thou use a poor lad like that?"   (source)
  • However just her indignation might be, her ideal was not to claim justice, but to give tenderness.   (source)
  • said Alice indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • He listened attentively to my narration of the circumstances leading to the savage outrage, and gave many proofs of his strong indignation at it.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • In truth, it was the death of Nolan ... which roused that wave of indignation in the Southwest which ended in the independence of Texas.   (source)
  • Miss Ophelia was so indignant at the barefaced lie, that she caught the child and shook her.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at a wrong
  • "Well," my father exclaimed indignantly, preparing us for the aphorism he uses like a maraschino cherry to top off all his unappreciated repair projects, "a man standing next to a river cannot appreciate water."†   (source)
  • The Count sat up in indignation.†   (source)
  • Every day I burned with greater indignation against Him, found more flaws to Him.†   (source)
  • "So, you aced the quiz and then bombed the follow-up?" she said to me, indignation decorating her words.†   (source)
  • Also as expected, the guards had backed off at once when the Teacher glared indignantly and flashed his identification card.†   (source)
  • Constance was indignant, but there was no time for a full-blown argument to develop, for just then the children's escorts arrived.†   (source)
  • Charles cried indignantly.†   (source)
  • Anger itself reminds me of Rose, but so do most of the women I see on the street, who wear dresses she would have liked, ride children on their hips with the swaying grace that she had, raise their voices wishfully, knowingly, indignantly, ruefully, ironically, affectionately, candidly, and even wrongly.†   (source)
  • "I DIDN'T SCREAM THAT LOUDLY," he said indignantly.†   (source)
  • Von Rumpel expected a melange of fear and indignation and hunger, but Dupont sits upright.†   (source)
  • Most of the crowd murmured in admiration, but I also heard an indignant snort.†   (source)
  • In the present situation she was less dangerous as an indignant little girl.†   (source)
  • By the time they started doing it, Alaska commenced with her righteous indignation.†   (source)
  • Jon thought the raven sounded faintly indignant.†   (source)
  • Josh is indignant.†   (source)
  • Was she supposed to be indignant?†   (source)
  • I try to turn it into a sound of indignation, but I can see in his eyes that he knows I'm hurt.†   (source)
  • Indignation flared in Cinder's chest.†   (source)
  • I thought he'd be more likely to believe me if I sounded indignant.†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN, with an indignant edge: She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor!†   (source)
  • "No!" said Boris indignantly, pushing his sleeve back down.†   (source)
  • Dart attempted to make his stutter sound indignant.†   (source)
  • 'Your officer helped the humans,' he blurted, mustering as much indignation as possible.†   (source)
  • People were indignant.†   (source)
  • WHAAAAAAAAA! the airhorn bellowed indignantly.†   (source)
  • The woman was indignant, saying, yes, come to think of it, the doctor had said something about Epsom salts.†   (source)
  • Eragon started for home at sunset, conscious of two hard blue eyes drilling into his back, indignant at being left behind.†   (source)
  • Instead she'll begin talking to you, her mother, demanding with a world of indignation: How could you let him?†   (source)
  • Later, over sobs of righteous indignation, she began to write in her diary, knowing full well her mother would read the words: "I hate her!†   (source)
  • His voice was still indignant.†   (source)
  • I remember the pure indignation we all felt.†   (source)
  • I have not rested well and the hallucinations start about midnight and I have the same man in the trench coat on the sled for a time, talking to me about educational grants, until I tell him to shut up and leave and he becomes indignant.†   (source)
  • "I do not," I said indignantly.†   (source)
  • In talking, he has the appearance of candor, becomes pathetic at times when pathos will serve him best, uttering his words with a quaver in his voice, often accompanied by a moistened eye, then turning quickly with a determined and forceful method of speech, as if indignation or resolution had sprung out of tender memories that had touched his heart.†   (source)
  • Ursula is outraged and indignant, but Gudrun is so caught up in this display of masculine power (and the language Lawrence uses is very much that of a rape) that she swoons.†   (source)
  • But running down the street to pick up his hat, I encountered Otto surrounded by an indignant little cluster of people who had seen what happened.†   (source)
  • Yetta said indignantly.†   (source)
  • Someone threw a gum wrapper out a side window and Babette made an indignant speech about inconsiderate people littering the highways and countryside.†   (source)
  • They re stealing our car, he added indignantly.†   (source)
  • I said indignantly.†   (source)
  • I expect the Dauntless to let out indignant shouts, maybe to charge the chair and beat him to a pulp.†   (source)
  • Flip around any of the legal networks, the true-crime shows, and Tanner Bolt's spray-tanned face would pop up, indignant and concerned on behalf of whatever freak-show client he was representing.†   (source)
  • Only once before in his austere professional life had something similar happened to him, and that had been the day of his greatest shame, because the indignant patient had moved his hand away, sat up in bed, and said to him: "What you want may happen, but it will not be like this."†   (source)
  • "No, sir," Wells said, biting back his indignation.†   (source)
  • A roar of indignation shook the room.†   (source)
  • Under normal circumstances, he would have been indignant: "I'm not a baby!†   (source)
  • Hilde was indignant when Sophie found the red silk scarf under her bed.†   (source)
  • His voice is indignant.†   (source)
  • A nurse in white uniform enters, saying to Farmer, indignantly, "I always say patients must sit down, and they don't listen to me."†   (source)
  • "I did not throw myself at you," she says indignantly.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to sound indignant.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, you don't," said the man, his voice thick with inebriated indignation.†   (source)
  • Most of Jordan's clients started out quiet and terrified in jail-which quickly gave way to anger and indignation.†   (source)
  • With a sense of righteous indignation I realized that, ironically, Allah was on my side.†   (source)
  • Watching Michael manipulate Richard's old, broken chess set always made Paul very indignant.†   (source)
  • Although Oliver's speech had been discussed and approved by the NEC, his proposal was met with indignation by ANC militants, who insisted that sanctions must be maintained unchanged.†   (source)
  • "He's ten years younger than me," I say, straightening up indignantly.†   (source)
  • And when she asked about drugs, I summoned every ounce of righteous indignation I could muster and denied touching a thing except a toke or two of weed.†   (source)
  • "Don't say anything, Bigwig," whispered Hazel: for Bigwig was scuffing his paws indignantly.†   (source)
  • Gray's indignant glance went from the girl herself to his hostess.†   (source)
  • A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem.†   (source)
  • A noted landscape architect of Chicago, H.W.S. Cleveland, seemed indignant about such accusations: "There was little or no confusion, and nothing like panic.†   (source)
  • She was very indignant.†   (source)
  • "You see, it's a poor mule," the boy said indignantly, springing up.†   (source)
  • "Not only my husband, but his brother, his mother, and his sister--they all beat me," Zoya recalled indignantly, speaking at a shelter in Kabul.†   (source)
  • "I can walk from here, thank you," she says, with indignation, trying to ignore the giggles and finger-pointing on the other side of the lake.†   (source)
  • "I have never ignited myself," said George indignantly.†   (source)
  • He leaned out the window and shouted to ask Mortenson directions over the indignant shrilling of horns.†   (source)
  • Susan was indignant.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been the indignation after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • And when he heard you were at finishing school, he was indignant.†   (source)
  • "Peanut butter has protein in it," I say, full of false indignation.†   (source)
  • He had difficulty in keeping from laughter at the indignant surprise of the guests.†   (source)
  • The prospect of hammering away at these people — each one horrified and indignant at the prospect of why we were looking into them — didn't fill me with joy or high hopes.†   (source)
  • Dr. Cuevas smiled from behind his teacup, which only made me more indignant.†   (source)
  • "You clearly don't understand the way things are," Madame Wang continued indignantly.†   (source)
  • At an indignant look from Burker, they quickly disappeared.†   (source)
  • Henry sat with an air of indignation.†   (source)
  • Ignoring Bronwyn's indignation, Miss Peregrine hopped over to Melina, looked up at the pigeon on her shoulder, and screeched.†   (source)
  • Now, now, said the man in a voice dripping with indignation over Tomas's insincerity, you can't tell me he didn't introduce himself!†   (source)
  • "No it's not!" says Mum indignantly.†   (source)
  • But it was too late, because Hemlatha felt her limbs move as if by their own volition, fueled by anger and indignation.†   (source)
  • She had considered lying to him a hundred times, but her indignation prevented her from doing so.†   (source)
  • He glanced repeatedly at Wade Lanier, whose indignation wore off as the story overwhelmed him.†   (source)
  • I'm the undersecretary of state!" exclaimed Herter with an air of indignation.†   (source)
  • Indignant.†   (source)
  • The reaction among the army was rage and indignation.†   (source)
  • Then a nun emerges on the other side draping herself in holy indignation-more seconds lost, more hours for Carlos.†   (source)
  • His reference to the district court's decision not to institutionalize her provoked the indignation of the interviewer, although apparently he had no idea what questions to ask.†   (source)
  • Tom opened his pink mouth and howled indignantly at the interruption to his feeding.†   (source)
  • Its beak hangs open, giving the bird a look of surprised indignation.†   (source)
  • The wind cut mercilessly across the barren end of Rass, but the hot shame and indignation inside me made me forget the wind as I walked.†   (source)
  • He looked hurt and slightly indignant.†   (source)
  • Kiswana threw her shoulders back and unsuccessfully tried to disguise her embarrassment with indignation.†   (source)
  • At that point everything was blotted out by Petra conversing indignantly with the unknown.†   (source)
  • With an indignant flip of her lank hair, Mum turned on her heel and marched to the door.†   (source)
  • Time and again he is heckled and booed by a fringe group known as the National Indignation Convention.†   (source)
  • HONEY: (To NICK, tearfully indignant) You told me to shut up!†   (source)
  • A few days after the crash, a "Public Indignation" meeting was held at City Hall, demanding authorities shut down Newark Airport.†   (source)
  • His mouth tightened with bureaucratic indignation as he prepared to initiate the rites of excommunication from the Corps of Cadets.†   (source)
  • I got all indignant and said, "Hey, give me a little credit, would you?"†   (source)
  • Antonio, though indignant at being lumped in with the tribesmen, had also been commanded to sit with the Amistads.†   (source)
  • There seem to be several points of view embedded within the article, though each of them is indignant and righteous in tone.†   (source)
  • Alessandro asked indignantly.†   (source)
  • Grandma's suspicion turns to indignation.†   (source)
  • Wyoh said indignantly that she was not being snoopy—weren't we trying to create a rounded character?†   (source)
  • Anybody who tries to name this after some unknown congressman is going to get a hundred terawatts of personal indignation straight up their keister.†   (source)
  • But these were not ordinary circumstances and my reaction was one of violent indignation.†   (source)
  • Her indignation came to her in English, even as she recalled a Chinese saying, Lao xu cheng nu — constant shame becomes anger.†   (source)
  • Eric said, indignant that I would suggest these were his dogs.†   (source)
  • My mother and father have stoked each other's indignation for almost forty years telling stories about land quarrels among the uncles, the in-laws, the grandparents.†   (source)
  • 11 Peyton danced in indignation, a slim shrill-voiced sprite.†   (source)
  • There were no mysterious murders to baffle the police and to arouse in a million breasts the moral indignation that was often suppressed envy.†   (source)
  • Once more indignation rose like a regurgitated bone in my gorge, though I made a last attempt to be patient.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [INDIGNANTLY]: Why does she get a reward?†   (source)
  • Control came imperfectly to all of us: we reached it at different times of life, frustrated, shot into indignation, by different things—some that are grown out of, and others not.†   (source)
  • Peter was indignant.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (to Estragon, indignantly).†   (source)
  • She turns indignantly and runs off.†   (source)
  • From behind the shed there came the indignant shrieking of an outraged chicken and then a dull thump.†   (source)
  • But indignation is in my heart.†   (source)
  • He gave one low cry of pain and indignation.†   (source)
  • I find it slightly ridiculous that you should be so indignant.†   (source)
  • Lara echoed him indignantly, pacing the room.†   (source)
  • "Shopping!" she said indignantly.†   (source)
  • PAPILLON: [indignant] Oh!†   (source)
  • The black thought momentarily doused the glow within me; then, angered and indignant, I thrust the intruder away, chasing it, banishing it …. tired of gloom, reaching desperately for perfection of delight, which can surely never be.†   (source)
  • TYRONE With indignant appeal now.†   (source)
  • Adams' patriotic instincts were aroused, and he was indignant that the very Federalist merchants whose ships were attacked had decided that appeasement of Great Britain was the only answer to their problems.†   (source)
  • NORFOLK (Indignantly) My Lord Chancellor!†   (source)
  • An expression of shocked indignation appeared on his face.†   (source)
  • Yet outside the office and the club her life was entirely dependent upon men, though she would have most indignantly repudiated the accusation.†   (source)
  • "But how can they live like this?" she broke out in a voice of indignant incredulity.   (source)
    indignant = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • Arguing, indignant, intent on our own business.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust
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