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angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- Larry Lish has become particularly self-righteous, and the quality in his voice that I call "necessary" is a tone of moral indignation.p. 438.5
- Yet to various guests and delivery boys, Lydia would always say—with a certain indignation of tone that was borrowed from my grandmother—"I am not Missus Wheelwright, I am Missus Wheelwright's former maid."p. 20.3
- "It's a cemetery in a store," she remarked indignantly, but Mr. Meany was new to monument sales; it was possible he needed just a little more time to make the store look right.p. 66.5
- I could easily imagine my grandmother's indignation—if she was up, and saw the truck there.p. 83.5
- But my greatest indignation was to follow: missing from the armadillo were the little animal's front claws—the most useful and impressive parts of its curious body.p. 88.6
- Finding my mother's bathroom in such reckless abandon, Grandmother proceeded to my mother's room—anxious that my mother was ill or else indignant with budget-mindedness and determined to point out my mother's carelessness, even if she had to wake her up.p. 106.7
- " 'If I could work my will,' " said Mr. Fish indignantly, " 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'p. 241.7
- "I DIDN'T SCREAM THAT LOUDLY," he said indignantly.p. 258.3
- "YOU CAN'T TAKE A MIRACLE AND JUST SHOW IT!" he said indignantly.p. 277.1
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