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
• Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
• He's bald, has a bit of a belly and seems to be in high dudgeon for much of the day.
• They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
• Do you think I would be dressed like a boy? cried Nora, in dudgeon. Melbourne House
• 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
• Dudgeon's sphygmograph was used for the pulse tracings.
• The Narcheska seemed in high dudgeon, walking stiff-backed as a soldier. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• `I don't want any impertinence out of you, young man,' she'd snapped and marched off in high dudgeon. JUST BETWEEN US