All 50 Uses of
indignant
in
Gone with the Wind
- "Not going to be any war!" cried the twins indignantly, as though they had been defrauded.†
Chpt 1.1
- Brent's wide ingenuous face was puzzled and mildly indignant.†
Chpt 1.1
- They were completely fearless of wild horses, shooting affrays and the indignation of their neighbors, but they had a wholesome fear of their red-haired mother's outspoken remarks and the riding crop that she did not scruple to lay across their breeches.†
Chpt 1.1
- The twins looked at the determined black boy in perplexity and indignation.†
Chpt 1.1
- There was indignation in his hoarse bass voice but also a wheedling note, and Scarlett teasingly clicked her tongue against her teeth as she reached out to pull his cravat into place.†
Chpt 1.2
- "Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything," he shouted, his thick, short arms making wide gestures of indignation, "for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it!†
Chpt 1.2
- Mammy's lips were large and pendulous and, when indignant, she could push out her lower one to twice its normal length.†
Chpt 1.2
- Toby, who had handled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his own business.†
Chpt 1.2
- To Mammy's indignation, her preferred playmates were not her demure sisters or the well-brought-up Wilkes girls but the negro children on the plantation and the boys of the neighborhood, and she could climb a tree or throw a rock as well as any of them.†
Chpt 1.3
- "Ah gwine fix yo' supper mahseff an' you eats it," said Mammy, her brow furrowed with indignation as she started down the hall for the kitchen.†
Chpt 1.4
- At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation.†
Chpt 1.5
- "Well, at any rate I've never been thrown," cried Scarlett indignantly.†
Chpt 1.5
- "God's nightgown!" said Scarlett to herself in indignation, using Gerald's favorite oath.†
Chpt 1.6
- As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Why, he means the boys are a passel of fools!" thought Scarlett indignantly, the hot blood coming to her cheeks.†
Chpt 1.6
- Mrs. Merriwether, I'll be bound!" cried Mrs. Meade indignantly.†
Chpt 2.8
- she cried indignantly.†
Chpt 2.8
- Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and the pleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could get anything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her.†
Chpt 2.9
- Indignation at being misunderstood mingled with Scarlett's forlorn feeling of being out of everything and strangled all utterance.†
Chpt 2.9
- Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began pushing back against the walls, the ladies carefully holding their hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against their bodies and show more pantalets than was proper.†
Chpt 2.9
- "Not a word about me!" thought Scarlett indignantly, as Melly smiled in confusion and answered, "Dear me, no, Captain Butler!†
Chpt 2.9
- He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.†
Chpt 2.9
- Mrs. Elsing, Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Whiting were red with indignation.†
Chpt 2.9
- Dr. Meade had begun to smile again, ignoring completely the indignant whispers that came from the Ladies' Hospital Committee in the corner.†
Chpt 2.9
- "Honey or India?" questioned Melly excitedly, while Scarlett stared almost indignantly.†
Chpt 2.10
- As she looked indignantly at the empty purse, an idea took form in Scarlett's mind and grew swiftly.†
Chpt 2.10
- CHAPTER XI On an afternoon of the following week, Scarlett came home from the hospital weary and indignant.†
Chpt 2.11
- And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her more timidly gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice done him.†
Chpt 2.12
- Oh, why doesn't he keep his mouth shut!" thought Scarlett indignantly.†
Chpt 2.12
- The doctor's letter was the first of a chorus of indignation that was beginning to be heard all over the South against speculators, profiteers and holders of government contracts.†
Chpt 2.13
- A hasty note from Darcy Meade to the doctor, the only first-hand information Atlanta received during those first days of July, was passed from hand to hand, with mounting indignation.†
Chpt 2.14
- When Scarlett was seeing Rhett to the door, she asked indignantly: "If it were you, wouldn't you enlist with the Yankees to keep from dying in that place and then desert?†
Chpt 2.16
- "Sir," said Mrs. Meade indignantly.†
Chpt 3.17
- Scarlett was furious with embarrassment and indignation.†
Chpt 3.17
- "Oh," she began, indignant at the slight to her charms.†
Chpt 3.17
- Dr. Meade, who had arrived out of breath, expecting to find Melanie in premature labor at least, judging by Aunt Pitty's alarmed summoning, was indignant and said as much.†
Chpt 3.18
- She was indignant that he had read her mind.†
Chpt 3.19
- She only felt a furious surge of indignation that he should think her such a fool.
Chpt 3.19 *indignation = anger at being wronged
- Pork was amazed and indignant.†
Chpt 3.25
- Don't you dare go bothering Pa with any of our troubles!" cried Scarlett, distracted between indignation at her sister and fear for Gerald.†
Chpt 3.26
- There were wild squealings, indignant gruntings in the back yard and, running to the widow, Scarlett saw Mammy waddling hurriedly across the cotton field with a struggling young pig under each arm.†
Chpt 3.27
- He saw the flame of indignant pride in them and he dropped his gaze quickly to his plate in embarrassment.†
Chpt 3.28
- A damned mule," she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.†
Chpt 3.29
- She felt as indignant as if her own money had been squandered.†
Chpt 3.29
- Everyone laughed except Peter, who shifted from one large splayed foot to the other in mounting indignation.†
Chpt 3.30
- "If Carreen had any sense of gratitude to me for what I've done for her, she'd marry him and not let him get away from here," Scarlett thought indignantly.†
Chpt 3.30
- Mammy was torn between indignation at the very idea of her two hundred pounds scooting anywhere, much less to the attic, and the dawning of a horrid suspicion.†
Chpt 4.32
- I'm not saying anything," said Scarlett indignantly.†
Chpt 4.32
- For a moment she was indignant that he should say other women were prettier, more clever and kind than she, but that momentary flare was wiped out in her pleasure that he had remembered her and her charm.†
Chpt 4.34
- He sank back against the seat aghast, indignation struggling with bewilderment.†
Chpt 4.35
Definition:
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(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong