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[ UK /ɪndˈɪɡnənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɪɡnənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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 indignant In A Sentence

  • In the late 1980s Craxi indignantly told Frei that he had never committed a single illegal act. Italy's Dirty Linen
  • We have every reason to remain indignant, disgusted, embarrassed and angry about this fact, but no room anymore whatsoever to feign surprise. The CNN estimate of the Searchlight Rally. | RedState
  • An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
  • And you call that a first class service?" snorted one indignant customer.
  • Justly indignant at our folly, for quarrelling is not allowed in his domains, the King laid us under sentence of banishment, decreeing that we should spend the fifteenth night of each month in this dreary forest until a tailor came who could mend the garments we had torn. Folk Tales From Many Lands
  • However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
  • Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
  • He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
  • They lead to sometimes-cordial responses but usually indignant comebacks, and that makes me equally irate.
  • She may feel indignant but it's really unfair to deprive your daughter of loving grandparents. The Sun
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