outrage

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Anger and displeasure
acrimony
anger
animus
annoyance
bad feeling
flap
fuss
get the humpidiom
gorge
grit
grit your teethidiom
grudge
hard feelingsidiom
irritation
red mist
reprehension
resentfulness
resentment
road rage
slow burn

Examples of indignation

indignation
Merchants pragmatically expressed their indignation at usurers and bankrupts as violators of the charity, moderation, and prudence they themselves claimed to display.
And when the bond was dishonoured, there was reason for indignation and distress.
Nonetheless, the passion and indignation of its author put a vitally important moral issue before us.
But we must learn to quash any such small-minded indignation.
This was not so much class action as moral indignation that the rules of the reciprocal relationship had been ignored.
There is an attractive indignation behind this argument against not only philosophical historicism but also the historicism of the social sciences.
This combination of features seems connected to both the unilateral departure and the state of indignation that also becomes evidently present.
Alberdi wanted to unleash an explosion of uncontrollable indignation, he succeeded.
We are indignant, and we feel that indignation as offense.
What basis can they have for moral indignation, when they freely and repeatedly contradict their words through their actions?
His descriptions of adulterated coins are remarkably free of moral indignation at this corruption of sound money.
When faced with a serious injustice, controlled selfdiscipline requires righteous indignation, which could easily take the form of anger, but not of malicious revenge.
The caller ends her laughter first, however, and then produces well in a tone that suggests mock indignation.
Righteous indignation and concern for the innocent might require nonpeaceful action.
An honest conversation, he maintains, will spur understanding, indignation, and reformation.
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