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UK
/ɪnsˈɛnsd/
]
[ US /ˈɪnˌsɛnst/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnˌsɛnst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
angered at something unjust or wrong
an indignant denial
incensed at the judges' unfairness
umbrageous at the loss of their territory
a look of outraged disbelief
How To Use incensed In A Sentence
- The elector, incensed at the unsoldierly destruction, challenged the mares-chal to a single combat. Sir Charles Grandison
- Locals from Mountmellick are incensed by the amount of household rubbish that is being illegally dumped in areas of the town.
- Pat was so incensed he got up and hit Jack.
- Pat was so incensed he got up at once and hit Jock, and Mrs Lennox screamed.
- He was so incensed he felt the need to put him in his place - despite the fact the row was in full view of other guests. The Sun
- Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
- The decision to reduce pay levels incensed the work - force.
- Ligeti went to see the film in 1968 and was rightly incensed.
- To think that a bad review could result in an incensed author and their posse showing up on my doorstep is pretty damn creepy - online stalking and harassment is equally creepy in my mind. I'm Not Saying I Condone It, But I Understand
- The gospel is incensed to signify the sweet odour which it communicates to our souls; and the ministers of God, to signify, according to St. Thomas, that God maketh manifest _the odour_ of his knowledge by us in every place: "For we are unto God _the good odour_ of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish". The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome