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词汇 indignant
释义 indignant
adjective
uk /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nənt/ us /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nənt/
angry because of something that is wrong or not fair: 愤怒的,愤慨的
She wrote an indignant letter to the paper complaining about the council's action.她给报纸写了一封义愤填膺的信抗议市政会的做法。
He became very indignant when it was suggested he had made a mistake.当有人提出他犯了错误时,他非常生气。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Angry and displeased
acridly
acrimonious
acrimoniously
aggrieved
amused
exasperatedly
fed up
fed up to the back teethidiom
fired up
fit to be tiedidiom
not be a happy camperidiom
outraged
peeved
piqued
pissed off
venomous
warpath
wound up
wrathful
wrathfully

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indignantly

indignant | American Dictionary


indignant
adjective
us/ɪnˈdɪɡ·nənt/
angry because of something that is wrong or not fair:
She wrote an indignant letter to the paper complaining about the mayor’s actions.

indignantly


adverbus/ɪnˈdɪɡ·nənt·li/
"Your assumption is entirely incorrect," he declared indignantly.

indignation


noun[ U ]us/ˌɪn·dɪɡˈneɪ·ʃən/
They reacted with shock and indignation when they were accused of cheating.

Examples of indignant


indignant
I wrote a couple of indignant articles trying to explain the folly and announcing doomsday.
We are indignant, and we feel that indignation as offense.
One can only infer from the tone injected in the text of his account that he was indignant at what he learned and observed.
Not surprisingly, the indigenous farming population were indignant and avoided payment.
Many private landowners become indignant at the suggestion that they are not providing the best care for the landscapes under their management.
As well as ending in walkouts, these sequences end with one or both of the par ticipants evidently in an indignant or distraught state.
Farmers often become indignant at the imposition and feel regulations are illogical, inflexible rules that are difficult to implement in real life.
The loser of a lying verdict would be justifiably indignant at the judge's insincerity.
It does not matter how desperate things appear nor how indignant we may be at life's vagaries.
Charles took it in stride, but this is not to say that he was neither impatient nor indignant with the state of affairs.
There was a howl of indignant protest.
Rallied under the common flag of a sacred cause, the victims of the invasion found refuge with their outraged 'brothers-inarms', indignant over the treatment they had received.
There were indignant protests from foreigners who were watching what was going on, particularly because the demonstrators were mainly schoolboys and schoolgirls.
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But the people living in that house will feel very indignant to find themselves in a much higher band than their next door neighbour.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It waxed indignant about the shortage of covered and all-weather courts and on the poor lawn tennis facilities generally.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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