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indignant
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The Grass is Singing
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- Not the murder itself; but the way people felt about it, the way they pitied Dick Turner with a fine fierce indignation against Mary, as if she were something unpleasant and unclean, and it served her right to get murdered.†
p. 3.9indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- Yet outside the office and the club her life was entirely dependent upon men, though she would have most indignantly repudiated the accusation.†
p. 36.1 *indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- She was left with a feeling of indignation, saying to herself, "And who does he think he is?"†
p. 59.2indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- "Cheek!" she began indignantly; but then she saw his still pale and hollowed face, and restrained herself.†
p. 129.8indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- She waited till the hand of the watch had passed the third minute, in growing indignation that he should have the temerity to remain idle when he should know by now her rule that no one should exceed the allowed one-minute pause.†
p. 132.9indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- She was familiar with this note of nervousness, for whenever a boy gave notice, although she always felt a sharp relief because the tensions that were created between herself and every servant would be dissolved by his going, she also felt indignant, as if it were an insult to herself She never let one go without long argument and expostulation.†
p. 171.4indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- No one really believes in the malignancy of gossip, save those who know how they themselves have suffered from it; and the Slatters would have cried, had they been challenged: "We have told people nothing but the truth"—but with that self-conscious indignation that confesses guilt.†
p. 192.9indignation = anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- Perhaps they would not have been so indignant and so irritated if Dick had been suitably conscious of his failure.†
p. 195.9indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
Definitions:
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(1)
(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)