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indignant

/in-dig-nuhnt/US // ɪnˈdɪg nənt //UK // (ɪnˈdɪɡnənt) //

忿忿不平,愤慨的,愤慨,愤怒的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base: indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.angry

Examples

  • When I did that last year, the interviewer became indignant, saying that asking why the prior employee left was inappropriate and that I was asking about a private personnel matter.

  • The research team’s rebuttal published in the Journal of Sex Research was indignant.

  • In response to this lawsuit, indignant Activision Blizzard employees staged a widespread walkout on July 28, and almost 500 workers at Ubisoft signed an open letter pushing Ubisoft management to acknowledge the company’s own issues of misconduct.

  • I returned indignant and fearful, as is often the case every time I confront them.

  • Suchil, indignant, told them that it did not matter, that there were other places in the dorm to exercise.

  • And what about those liberal activists who made the young Scalia and Thomas so indignant?

  • Black thinkers do not make bone-deep, censoriously indignant statements on CNN.

  • He was also frequently becoming indignant, refusing to take orders from higher-ranked soldiers if they had not served in combat.

  • And for every excited gentrifier, there is a horrified, indignant NIMBY.

  • This has been the source of some indignant tweeting from Karachi.

  • But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

  • The injured and indignant animal gave vent to a succession of eldritch screams.

  • "Then he neglects his duties, that's all," replied the old gentleman with an indignant snort.

  • Marceau, indignant at being rebuked by a young staff officer, roughly asked, "And who are you?"

  • The social ambitions of the Tippetts were so definitely quenched that the indignant millionaire threatened to return to Chicago.