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incensed

/in-senst/US // ɪnˈsɛnst //

怒火中烧,愤怒的,怒不可遏,愤怒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inflamed with anger; enraged: "I will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within my administration!" said the incensed mayor, filled with righteous indignation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.very angry

Examples

  • They were so incensed that they resigned and founded another journal, October, which remains an influential voice among old-guard supporters of the avant-garde.

  • You can first identify leakage points by turning on your kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans, creating a slight pressure differential between indoors and outdoors, then holding up a lit incense stick to potential problem areas.

  • They voted with their feet, like the Fox News viewers incensed by the network's accurate 2020 election coverage who switched to Newsmax.

  • There’s a humorous element to seeing fans angrily tweet at royal family accounts, incensed by what they have just witnessed O’Connor or Olivia Colman’s Elizabeth enact on-screen.

  • Despite the 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v Heller which established a right to bear arms for self-defence, conservatives have become increasingly incensed at state and local laws governing gun ownership.

  • In a Hot Springs, Arkansas, stud-poker game, a player named Burke became justly incensed one evening because he could not win.

  • Her incensed mother contacted a lawyer, hoping to block publication; Polanski had not made her sign a release.

  • The family, villagers, and the Taliban were even incensed by a shampoo commercial, featuring Humira, which played on television.

  • It incensed the students, to the extent that they actually shouted me down.

  • Snipes became further incensed when he learned that Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel had been hired to co-star in the film.

  • But there's no denying that I behaved disgracefully to—you know—and Dr. Ashton has good reason to be incensed.

  • It may be, of course, that the responsibility was thrown on the lady in order to restrain the hand of the incensed king.

  • But mother and Maxim bravely defended Stenka, and I was deeply incensed at father, who despotically terminated the discussion.

  • M. d'Infreville, justly incensed against me, had not left me a sou, and my mother and I became terribly poor.

  • This action incensed the emperor, who immediately dispatched an army of eighty thousand men against the city.