All 31 Uses of
indignant
in
Bleak House
- Maces, bags, and purses indignantly proclaim silence and frown at the man from Shropshire.†
Chpt 1-3
- With that apology I withdrew to a seat between Peepy (who, being well used to it, had already climbed into a corner place) and an old lady of a censorious countenance whose two nieces were in the class and who was very indignant with Peepy's boots.†
Chpt 13-15
- "The airs the fellow gives himself!" said my informant, shaking her head at old Mr. Turveydrop with speechless indignation as he drew on his tight gloves, of course unconscious of the homage she was rendering.†
Chpt 13-15
- While he said this in tones of the greatest indignation, he handed us into the little phaeton with the utmost gentleness and was all smiles and pleasure.†
Chpt 16-18
- The learned gentleman who is always so tremendously indignant at the unprecedented outrage committed on the feelings of his client by the opposite party that he never seems likely to recover it is doing infinitely better than might be expected in Switzerland.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mrs. Snagsby and Mrs. Chadband are proceeding to grow shrill in indignation when Mr. Chadband quiets the tumult by lifting up his hand.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mrs. Snagsby indignantly expresses her belief that he is a limb of the arch-fiend.†
Chpt 19-21
- …and the whole array of practitioners under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one—this was so curious and selfcontradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first incredible, and I…†
Chpt 22-24
- All Sir Leicester's old misgivings relative to Wat Tyler and the people in the iron districts who do nothing but turn out by torchlight come in a shower upon his head, the fine grey hair of which, as well as of his whiskers, actually stirs with indignation.†
Chpt 28-30
- Not a cousin of the batch but is really indignant, and connects it with the feebleness of William Buffy when in office, and really does feel deprived of a stake in the country—or the pension list—or something—by fraud and wrong.†
Chpt 28-30
- With this apology, Mercury directs a scornful and indignant look at the young man of the name of Guppy which plainly says, "What do you come calling here for and getting ME into a row?"†
Chpt 28-30
- Such a mean mission as the domestic mission was the very last thing to be endured among them; indeed, Miss Wisk informed us, with great indignation, before we sat down to breakfast, that the idea of woman's mission lying chiefly in the narrow sphere of home was an outrageous slander on the part of her tyrant, man.†
Chpt 28-30
- My guardian stopped and looked at him with a whimsical mixture of amusement and indignation in his face.†
Chpt 31-33
- Talk in that cool way of a fellow's living there?" cries Mr. Weevle indignantly.†
Chpt 31-33
- Some of these authorities (of course the wisest) hold with indignation that the deceased had no business to die in the alleged manner; and being reminded by other authorities of a certain inquiry into the evidence for such deaths reprinted in the sixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions; and also of a book not quite unknown on English medical jurisprudence; and likewise of the Italian case of the Countess Cornelia Baudi as set forth in detail by one Bianchini, prebendary of…†
Chpt 31-33
- YOU'RE a moral character," says the trooper, eyeing him in his large way with no small indignation; "upon my life you are, Phil!"†
Chpt 34-36
- As though, Mr. Vholes and his relations being minor cannibal chiefs and it being proposed to abolish cannibalism, indignant champions were to put the case thus: Make man-eating unlawful, and you starve the Vholeses!†
Chpt 37-39
- Whereas now I do declare to you that he becomes to me the embodiment of the suit; that in place of its being an abstraction, it is John Jarndyce; that the more I suffer, the more indignant I am with him; that every new delay and every new disappointment is only a new injury from John Jarndyce's hand."†
Chpt 37-39
- Hundreds," says Sir Leicester, eyeing the cousins with increasing dignity and swelling indignation, "hundreds of thousands of pounds!"†
Chpt 40-42
- General burst of cousinly indignation.†
Chpt 40-42
- Such was his pride, that he indignantly took her away, as if from reproach and disgrace.†
Chpt 40-42
- "And this is the heart that the same John Jarndyce, who is not otherwise to be mentioned between us, stepped in to estrange from me," said he indignantly.†
Chpt 43-45
- So he does it, though still with an indignant gravity that impresses the young Bagnets, and even causes Mr. Bagnet to defer the ceremony of drinking Mrs. Bagnet's health, always given by himself on these occasions in a speech of exemplary terseness.†
Chpt 49-51
- Her friendly indignation had an exemplary effect upon her husband, who shook his head at the trooper several times as a silent recommendation to him to yield.†
Chpt 52-54
- I cannot separate and define the feelings that arose in me after this; it is enough that the vague duty and obligation I had felt upon me from the first of following the investigation was, without my distinctly daring to ask myself any question, increased, and that I was indignantly sure of there being no possibility of a reason for my being afraid.†
Chpt 52-54
- But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent.†
Chpt 52-54
- The agitation and the indignation from which I have recently suffered have been too much for me.
Chpt 52-54 *indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- Mademoiselle Hortense, casting an indignant eye at the glass, shakes herself perfectly neat in one shake and looks, to do her justice, uncommonly genteel.†
Chpt 52-54
- In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, "I am not."†
Chpt 58-60
- They had been engaged when they were both very young, I told him (a little indignantly) and when the prospect before them was much fairer and brighter.†
Chpt 58-60
- Nothing seemed to astonish Mr. Guppy's mother so much and to make her so very indignant as our not getting out.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong