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  • Louie felt indignant rage flaring in him, a struck match.   (source)
    indignant = anger (at a 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • "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
  • “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
  • Kit flared, indignant as much at his tone as at the dread word he uttered so carelessly.   (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • We were horrified and indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angered 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
  • ...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
  • Pesao looks at his face, giggles and flings another pebble at the hens, who scatter indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with annoyance at being wronged
  • (Indignantly) What's the matter with you all!   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • "That's a ridiculous law," said Milo, quite indignantly.   (source)
  • "All right!" said Eustace indignantly. "We're not blind."   (source)
    indignantly = feeling anger (at being treated like an idiot)
  • 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
  • "Don't you dare talk to me that way!" she replied indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = angered by the wrong
  • God was indignant as all get-out.   (source)
    indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or 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
  • "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
  • Jim bellowed indignantly, "Who don't love Daisy?"   (source)
    indignantly = with anger at something unjust or wrong
  • ...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
  • She only felt a furious surge of indignation that he should think her such a fool.   (source)
    indignation = anger at being wronged
  • "I wasn't snooping," said Katie indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • But Anne continued to face Mrs. Rachel undauntedly, head up, eyes blazing, hands clenched, passionate indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere.   (source)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or wrong
  • "I am not hiding," exclaimed King Pellinore indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • He fairly choked with indignation.   (source)
    indignation = anger 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
  • I was indignant.   (source)
    indignant = angered at something unjust or wrong
  • [Jack looks indignantly at him, and leaves the room.]   (source)
  • '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
  • The general flushed with indignation as he spoke.   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
  • [In a tone of indignation.]   (source)
  • However just her indignation might be, her ideal was not to claim justice, but to give tenderness.   (source)
  • everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.   (source)
  • said Alice indignantly.   (source)
    indignantly = with 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    indignation = anger at something unjust or 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, who was standing now, was inclined to echo Yaroslav's indignation and commend a punishment that fit the crime.†   (source)
  • Every day I burned with greater indignation against Him, found more flaws to Him.†   (source)
  • Also as expected, the guards had backed off at once when the Teacher glared indignantly and flashed his identification card.†   (source)
  • "So, you aced the quiz and then bombed the follow-up?" she said to me, indignation decorating her words.†   (source)
  • Von Rumpel expected a melange of fear and indignation and hunger, but Dupont sits upright.†   (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)
  • Most of Jordan's clients started out quiet and terrified in jail-which quickly gave way to anger and indignation.†   (source)
  • Larry Lish has become particularly self-righteous, and the quality in his voice that I call "necessary" is a tone of moral indignation.†   (source)
  • Jon thought the raven sounded faintly 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)
  • Constance was indignant, but there was no time for a full-blown argument to develop, for just then the children's escorts arrived.†   (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)
  • Most of the crowd murmured in admiration, but I also heard an indignant snort.†   (source)
  • Indignation flared in Cinder's chest.†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN, with an indignant edge: She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor!†   (source)
  • Was she supposed to be indignant?†   (source)
  • 'Your officer helped the humans,' he blurted, mustering as much indignation as possible.†   (source)
  • "No!" said Boris indignantly, pushing his sleeve back down.†   (source)
  • People were indignant.†   (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)
  • Eragon started for home at sunset, conscious of two hard blue eyes drilling into his back, indignant at being left behind.†   (source)
  • I thought he'd be more likely to believe me if I sounded indignant.†   (source)
  • I expect the Dauntless to let out indignant shouts, maybe to charge the chair and beat him to a pulp.†   (source)
  • I said indignantly.†   (source)
  • His voice is indignant.†   (source)
  • His voice was still indignant.†   (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)
  • Under normal circumstances, he would have been indignant: "I'm not a baby!†   (source)
  • Seivarden straightened, indignant at the gesture, which was much ruder to a Radchaai than it was here.†   (source)
  • They re stealing our car, he added 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Instead she'll begin talking to you, her mother, demanding with a world of indignation: How could you let him?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Hilde was indignant when Sophie found the red silk scarf under her bed.†   (source)
  • "I do not," I said indignantly.†   (source)
  • Dr. Cuevas smiled from behind his teacup, which only made me more indignant.†   (source)
  • I remember the pure indignation we all felt.†   (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)
  • Yetta said indignantly.†   (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)
  • It was supposed to sound indignant.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Watching Michael manipulate Richard's old, broken chess set always made Paul very indignant.†   (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)
  • She frowned at him in mock indignation.†   (source)
  • But it was too late, because Hemlatha felt her limbs move as if by their own volition, fueled by anger and indignation.†   (source)
  • "No it's not!" says Mum indignantly.†   (source)
  • Kiswana threw her shoulders back and unsuccessfully tried to disguise her embarrassment with indignation.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, you don't," said the man, his voice thick with inebriated indignation.†   (source)
  • And when he heard you were at finishing school, he was indignant.†   (source)
  • "You see, it's a poor mule," the boy said indignantly, springing up.†   (source)
  • Gray's indignant glance went from the girl herself to his hostess.†   (source)
  • "He's ten years younger than me," I say, straightening up indignantly.†   (source)
  • The reaction among the army was rage and indignation.†   (source)
  • Josh is indignant.†   (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)
  • He looked hurt and slightly 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)
  • At an indignant look from Burker, they quickly disappeared.†   (source)
  • A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem.†   (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)
  • Grandma's suspicion turns to indignation.†   (source)
  • With an indignant flip of her lank hair, Mum turned on her heel and marched to the door.†   (source)
  • With a sense of righteous indignation I realized that, ironically, Allah was on my side.†   (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)
  • She was very indignant.†   (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)
  • Reuben Atlee stomped around the courtroom, full of arrogance and bluster and indignation that the lawsuit had even been filed.†   (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)
  • Time and again he is heckled and booed by a fringe group known as the National Indignation Convention.†   (source)
  • He had difficulty in keeping from laughter at the indignant surprise of the guests.†   (source)
  • Susan was indignant.†   (source)
  • "Don't say anything, Bigwig," whispered Hazel: for Bigwig was scuffing his paws indignantly.†   (source)
  • Tom opened his pink mouth and howled indignantly at the interruption to his feeding.†   (source)
  • She had considered lying to him a hundred times, but her indignation prevented her from doing so.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been the indignation after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Henry sat with an air of indignation.†   (source)
  • He leaned out the window and shouted to ask Mortenson directions over the indignant shrilling of horns.†   (source)
  • "No, sir," Wells said, biting back his indignation.†   (source)
  • Ignoring Bronwyn's indignation, Miss Peregrine hopped over to Melina, looked up at the pigeon on her shoulder, and screeched.†   (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)
  • A roar of indignation shook the room.†   (source)
  • Cries of surprise and derision came from the audience at the sight of two figures, the shouts of the indignant Bertinelli heard over the din.†   (source)
  • Antonio, though indignant at being lumped in with the tribesmen, had also been commanded to sit with the Amistads.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I got all indignant and said, "Hey, give me a little credit, would you?"†   (source)
  • I'm the undersecretary of state!" exclaimed Herter with an air of indignation.†   (source)
  • Wyoh said indignantly that she was not being snoopy—weren't we trying to create a rounded character?†   (source)
  • Its beak hangs open, giving the bird a look of surprised indignation.†   (source)
  • Alessandro asked indignantly.†   (source)
  • "You clearly don't understand the way things are," Madame Wang continued indignantly.†   (source)
  • Dart attempted to make his stutter sound indignant.†   (source)
  • A few days after the crash, a "Public Indignation" meeting was held at City Hall, demanding authorities shut down Newark Airport.†   (source)
  • At that point everything was blotted out by Petra conversing indignantly with the unknown.†   (source)
  • "Peanut butter has protein in it," I say, full of false indignation.†   (source)
  • "I have never ignited myself," said George indignantly.†   (source)
  • There seem to be several points of view embedded within the article, though each of them is indignant and righteous in tone.†   (source)
  • HONEY: (To NICK, tearfully indignant) You told me to shut up!†   (source)
  • Her indignation came to her in English, even as she recalled a Chinese saying, Lao xu cheng nu — constant shame becomes anger.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Eric said, indignant that I would suggest these were his dogs.†   (source)
  • His mouth tightened with bureaucratic indignation as he prepared to initiate the rites of excommunication from the Corps of Cadets.†   (source)
  • "Shopping!" she said indignantly.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (to Estragon, indignantly).†   (source)
  • I find it slightly ridiculous that you should be so indignant.†   (source)
  • But these were not ordinary circumstances and my reaction was one of violent indignation.†   (source)
  • From behind the shed there came the indignant shrieking of an outraged chicken and then a dull thump.†   (source)
  • Once more indignation rose like a regurgitated bone in my gorge, though I made a last attempt to be patient.†   (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)
  • ANNIE [INDIGNANTLY]: Why does she get a reward?†   (source)
  • She turns indignantly and runs off.†   (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)
  • 11 Peyton danced in indignation, a slim shrill-voiced sprite.†   (source)
  • Peter was indignant.†   (source)
  • NORFOLK (Indignantly) My Lord Chancellor!†   (source)
  • But indignation is in my heart.†   (source)
  • Lara echoed him indignantly, pacing the room.†   (source)
  • TYRONE With indignant appeal now.†   (source)
  • He gave one low cry of pain and indignation.†   (source)
  • PAPILLON: [indignant] Oh!†   (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)
  • 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
  • Betrayed the right amount of feeling-indignation, disgust-but no guilt, no discomfiture?   (source)
    indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust
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