dudgeon

How To Use dudgeon In A Sentence

• Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
• And so we get ourselves in high dudgeon at injustices that may never have happened, because they are the kind of thing we would hate if they had happened.
• The man walked off in dudgeon, and Mr. Westwyn, losing his anger in his astonishment at this effrontery, said, 'And pray, Mr. Lynmere, what do you pretend to know of Stilton cheese? do they make it at Leipsic? did you ever so much as taste it in your life?' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
• But, finding himself passed over, when others were promoted, he had gone off homeward in dudgeon. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
• The Narcheska seemed in high dudgeon, walking stiff-backed as a soldier. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
• Taken to task by his wife for a prolonged visit at the village inn, the clerk threatened in dudgeon to return to his potations, and did indeed set out again with this in mind.
• Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
• But I took little heed of her, being in a kind of dudgeon, and oppressed with evil luck; believing too that all she wanted was to have some little grumble about some petty grievance. Lorna Doone
• Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?