All 7 Uses
indignant
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Black Boy
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- I don't want to go to your old house," I told her with my nine-year-old indignation.†
Chpt 1.2indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- This is not only a school, but God's holy ground," she said with angry indignation.†
Chpt 1.4
- I didn't think anybody ever would," she declared indignantly.†
Chpt 1.6indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- Hardheaded, sensible, a reader of magazines and books, he was proud of his race and indignant about its wrongs.†
Chpt 1.12 *indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- "Well, all I can do is tell you the truth," I lied indignantly.†
Chpt 2.15indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- It became a habit of mine to visit Washington Park of an afternoon after collecting a part of my premiums, and I would wander through crowds of unemployed Negroes, pausing here and there to sample the dialectic or indignation of Communist speakers.†
Chpt 2.16indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- You don't know the indignation of the masses!" he exploded.†
Chpt 2.16
Definitions:
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(1)
(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)