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high dudgeon

NOUN
  1. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')

How To Use high dudgeon In A Sentence

  • 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?
  • Which caused MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to go into an eleven-minute, high dudgeon rant addressed directly to Cheney, with a lot of "You sirs" and squinty, glinty eyeballing. Kate Clinton: Shut Up Cheney
  • Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
  • In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
  • The Narcheska seemed in high dudgeon, walking stiff-backed as a soldier. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • 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 whole thing had me in high dudgeon.
  • At the same time, he is in high dudgeon these days over the trial.
  • Although they were eventually put back on the rails, the bad odour lingered, and was not dispelled when a non-executive director quit in high dudgeon.
  • Where in thunder is she?" growled Tom, walking off in high dudgeon. An Old-Fashioned Girl
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