Both Uses
indignant
in
The Nose, by Gogol
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- A veteran colonel, leaving his house earlier than usual expressly for the purpose, had the greatest difficulty in elbowing his way through the crowd, but to his great indignation he saw nothing in the store window but an ordinary flannel waistcoat and a coloured lithograph representing a young girl darning a stocking, while an elegant youth in a waistcoat with large lappels watched her from behind a tree.†
indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- One gentleman asserted with great indignation that he could not understand how in our enlightened age such absurdities could spread abroad, and he was astonished that the Government did not direct their attention to the matter.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)