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Example sentences for "indignant"

Lexicographically close words:
indigenous; indigent; indigested; indigestible; indigestion; indignantly; indignation; indigne; indignities; indignity
  1. Indignant at this foul accusation, the noble chief at once resolved to meet it in a manner that would leave no doubt as to his faithfulness to the United States.

  2. Indignant at the want of courage or military skill, which prompted the commander of the British forces to shrink from meeting the American army on the shore of lake Erie, he sternly refused to retreat beyond the Moravian towns.

  3. It was delivered with great vehemence, and deep indignant feeling.

  4. Tecumseh felt indignant that captain Wells had not visited him in person.

  5. The ignorance of the most noted clerks and lecturers of his day is over and over again the subject of Bacon's indignant remonstrance.

  6. Eaton sent back an indignant remonstrance, and continued to hold the town.

  7. Your chief of police is no gentleman," declared certain prominent merchants, arrested for smuggling opium, and naturally aggrieved and indignant at such unheard-of treatment.

  8. Thus, it required two centuries before an editor could venture to give the world the pure and complete text of the manuscript of the lieutenant-general of the papal army, who had been so close and so indignant an observer of the Roman cabinet.

  9. Roused now into action, the indignant Barnard soon produced a more complete Life, to which he prefixed "A necessary Vindication.

  10. It was their indignant spirit, seeking to console its injuries by confiding them to their secret manuscripts, which raised up this singular phenomenon in the literary world.

  11. Indignant was the speaker's voice, and indignant were his eyes; he spoke quick, breathed hard, showed all the signs of violent emotion.

  12. I have heard him lash the faults of others with an indignant sorrow which brought the tears to his eyes.

  13. She did not cause the King to be more perturbed than he was when waxing indignant over the conduct of his pages; and there was no need for Dr.

  14. The indignant young lady, with something of the stage atmosphere still clinging to her, flung herself with the gesture of a tortured heroine, proud and passionate, toward the door of the room to which the two ladies had retired.

  15. There were, however, some who did not regard Mr. Burke as an infallible judge on such a point, and no one was more indignant at the mouthings of the rhetorician than Miss Burney.

  16. But my good sir," said Murray angrily, "this idea of forcing me makes me the more indignant and obstinate.

  17. In 1811 she wrote her poem on the King's illness, and also the longer poem which provoked such indignant comments at the time.

  18. Arago was so indignant with him for abandoning his troops that he would have nothing to say to the plan.

  19. She felt these attacks very much, and could not be consoled, though Miss Edgeworth wrote a warm-hearted letter of indignant sympathy.

  20. Here is Rocca's indignant speech to Lord Byron, who was abusing the stupidity of the Genevese.

  21. She was more surprised and offended than indignant at what she took for an empty threat, and she was not at all frightened.

  22. His friend was highly indignant when he heard the story--a fact that gave Burwell no little comfort, knowing, as he did, that the man was accustomed to foreign ways from long residence abroad.

  23. With that he turned on his heel, and the indignant guest could not prevail upon him to give any explanation.

  24. Lord Antinous, indignant to be answered with such sharpness by a supposed beggar, snatched up a stool, with which he smote Ulysses where the neck and shoulders join.

  25. They were very indignant that no attention was paid to their warnings.

  26. So indignant did he become, said Gill, that he endeavored to recruit a committee of protest from among the crew, but the men failed him.

  27. And also at the sides camions were loading, and an officer from the Midi in charge of one of these was being dramatically indignant at five minutes' delay.

  28. Were you neutral because you are too mean and cowardly, or too stupidly selfish, or because you had in view an end too great to be sacrificed to a moment of indignant pride and a force in reserve too precious to dispel?

  29. He really seemed to be less indignant with us, than with the banjo-player.

  30. The constable was still more indignant because the crowd nocked around us.

  31. He pushed the indignant Chief away, and taking the wheel himself, began to put the boat about.

  32. He was indignant with Belgium for claiming national independence.

  33. The verses he prefixed to The Holy War are an indignant reply to those who accused him of not being the real author of The Pilgrim's Progress.

  34. Mrs. Wilkins meant their husbands, persisting in her assumption that Frederick was as indignant as Mellersh over the departure of his wife, whereas Frederick did not even know his wife had gone.

  35. Scrap asked herself, her eyes fixed on Mrs. Fisher in what felt to her an indignant stare but appeared to Mrs. Fisher as really charming docility.

  36. Often she had met wives who didn't want their husbands either, but that made them none the less indignant if they thought somebody else did, and none the less sure, when they saw them hanging round Scrap, that she was trying to get them.

  37. Scrap, who loved this time of the evening in her corner, felt indignant with Mr. Briggs who was doing her out of it, and she turned her back on the garden and him and went towards the house without a look or a word.

  38. Mr Johnson, drawing himself up and casting an indignant glance at the midshipman.

  39. A loud guffaw from the occupant of a distant hammock made the boatswain stop short, and look round with an indignant glance.

  40. Some of the officers were very indignant at the impudence of the Yankee captain; others were highly amused, and I believe Captain Collyer was, for he turned away at last to hide his laughter.

  41. And in a trice of time, he was completely surrounded and hemmed in by an exasperated, gesticulating crowd, whose ominous looks and indignant mutterings were plainly significant of prompt hostility.

  42. Theos gave an indignant start,--the hot color flushed his brows, .

  43. Then straightway he became indignant on his friend's behalf,--why should Sah-luma be blamed?

  44. But Kitty's words were not loving; they were only indignant and distressed.

  45. Angela made no answer, she felt a little indignant with Brian and Elizabeth for looking bright.

  46. Richard had told him of the punishment to which he had subjected the lad; and Brian had been frankly indignant about it.

  47. There was, however, a very lengthy document from Padre Cristoforo, which Brian and Elizabeth read with burning hearts and tearful or indignant eyes.

  48. The indignant nurse hustled Brian away, and would not allow him to return; he ought to have known, she said, that the sight of him would excite the patient.

  49. He was indignant with his sister, disgusted with Hugo Luttrell.

  50. The household had already been considerably reduced, and the indignant housekeeper immediately announced her intention of going to Mr. Colquhoun and inquiring whether young Mr. Luttrell had been legally empowered to manage his aunt's affairs.

  51. There is no disgrace in being paid for work that is worth doing and that is done well," said Elizabeth, flashing an indignant look at him.

  52. The little intrigues, the petty passions, which I see in the world, make me indignant to the bottom of my soul.

  53. I know of nothing that made me more indignant than the folly of some ladies who, among his soldiers on the Potomac, decried and denounced him as an imbecile.

  54. The history of Virginia speaks in the voice of indignant rebuke to all those States that assemble sectional conventions.

  55. Louder the outcry of the indignant people.

  56. He had been kept by her in entire ignorance of the whole affair, and was very indignant at her having been suspected.

  57. The Miss Penfolds," he said, "were so indignant that they left the house altogether, and you may believe that we ransacked it from top to bottom.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indignant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acrimonious; angry; choleric; con; cross; disappointed; discontented; disenchanted; disgruntled; disillusioned; displeased; dissatisfied; dissenting; heated; impatient; incensed; indignant; intolerant; irate; livid; low; mad; opposed; opposing; pissed; poor; resentful; riled; sore; unappreciative; uncomplimentary; unfavorable; unhappy; wrathful; wroth