How To Use Indignation In A Sentence

The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation of God.
The government are unable to stem the tide of popular indignation.
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
Watching Nixon's henchmen come out of the woodwork to declare their moral indignation at the ethical lapses of Mark Felt was tantamount to watching Liza Minelli criticize someone else for being an an unstable boozehound.

However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities.
I don't get your confusion if I mutter under my breath about the enormity of your shelter, or your look of dry indignation if I run and buddy up with you under your brolly - there's room enough for two, no?
Nothing so aroused her indignation as the mention of her name consequently few knew what it really was. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces
They're willing to do anything in service to any liberal with money, and then they'll turn around and in self-righteous indignation claim that they have cleaner hands than anybody in the news business who accepts advertising or expresses a point of view. Notable & Quotable
Hopkins' hysteria was a sample of America's campus-based indignation industry, which churns out operatic reactions to imagined slights.
His response was one of high indignation.
Lemos resigned on March 25, allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges.
The dominant emotional reaction to the letter was shock and disbelief or anger and indignation.
Yet the papers whipped themselves into a lather of indignation.
The country teems with "poets, poetasters, poetitos, and poetaccios:" every man has his recognised position in literature as accurately defined as though he had been reviewed in a century of magazines, -- the fine ear of this people [22] causing them to take the greatest pleasure in harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, whereas a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation. First Footsteps in East Africa
The captain professed great annoyance and indignation at what he termed the desertion of his ward, and demanded to know when the tutor proposed to return to his duties. Roger Ingleton, Minor
And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy. Science & Education
Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter's black ingratitude. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
They were filled with a kind of righteous indignation that characterized Old Testament prophets like Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah!
Burn with righteous indignation , martyr sacrifices for equality, do the mankind to liberate emancipator.
So great was the indignation that the empty plaints of a few celebrities who groused about leaving the country in 2000 became a popular badge of outrage last week.
The government are unable to stem the tide of popular indignation.
This stunning defeat causes another "helpful wave of indignation" [1] across the "homeland," preordaining a new US response. Big "Sacrifice" Gambit
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and, with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near the old town of Zulfa. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The name stung Mr. Renshaw to indignation, as Smith's had done. The Prince and Betty
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
Schmidt, on the other hand, never used the term collateral damage -- or any similar term, because that would have completely undermined her fairy tale of righteous indignation. Gary S. Chafetz: Review of Casino Jack and the United States of Money by Alex Gibney
Some benefits apply only to men, much to the indignation of working women.
But I have refined everything away by this time — anger, indignation, scorn itself. Nothing left but disgust.
Such was the media indignation that his frightful suicide was not reported in any national newspaper.
You swallow your righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
In response to this event, moral outrage and indignation are not sufficient.
It is much closer to what we would call " righteous indignation. Christianity Today
He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney.
vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv. Pneumatologia
There is a gap again because I stopped work, suddenly aware that an alien indignation was invading my soul.
The level of patriotic indignation in China against posturing by American and European politicians over Tibet is already so high that a long-term clamp-down in Tibet seems inevitable, while public support in China for continued cooperation with the West can no longer be taken for granted. Israelated - English Israel blogs
Her brown eyes are full of indignation. Times, Sunday Times
They caused an outburst of public indignation. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
The English mean to make slaves of us," they said, in haughty indignation, and soon a plot to murder all the British was formed. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
When I mentioned the latest bad press, their reticence gave way to hoots of derisory laughter and genuine indignation.
A giggle escaped Anna at the look of indignation on Kate's face and the sheepish grin on Ben's. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
He became vocal with indignation.
The speech, delivered in a southern accent, trembling with indignation, was the biggest hit of the convention.
In public, officials expressed indignation. Times, Sunday Times
That was also when the righteous indignation returned. Times, Sunday Times
There is little moralising strain in French culture, and less vocal indignation at corruption than in Italy.
During the whole process I pretended to be engrossed in the novel, although a strong sense of indignation was simmering within.
I've shared tears and anger, thoughtfulness and righteous indignation.
When challenged, he appears offended and clearly has difficulty masking his indignation. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Now they could wallow in self-righteous indignation. THE GUARDSMEN
There are some interesting figures quoted in the article - figures that don't shock or surprise me anymore, but just provoke hollow laughter and indignation.
Wisemans encyclical, dated from without the Flaminian Gate, in which he announced the new departure, was greeted in England by a storm of indignation, culminating in the famous and furibund letter of Lord John Russell, then Prime Minister, against the insolence of the Papal Aggression. Cardinal Manning: Part V
Moral indignation was invoked to support the violation.
The indignation aroused by his enormities has been too crushing to be borne by living man, though sheathed with the brass and triple cheek of Mark Twain…He has vamosed, cut stick, absquatulated; and among the pine forests of the Sierras, or amid the purlieus of the city of earthquakes, he will tarry awhile, and the office of the Enterprise will become purified…33 Mark Twain
We have seen that one of Lees designs in crossing the Potomac was to give the people of Maryland an opportunity of liberating themselves; he accordingly issued an address to them declaring that the South had watched with deepest sympathy their wrongs and had seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. Chapter IV
I can see that little sketch now, and I feel still a wave of the dizziness of my indignation at its strange depiction of a strong man reduced to dollhood. Memories of Hawthorne
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-- I sadly fear these stout old Greeks, having power for the nonce, would, throwing philosophy to the dogs in a moment of paroxysmal indignation, despite physiognomies trained to resemble their own, have these fellows casked up in tubs without lanterns, but with the appropriate "snuffers," fit emblems of their faiths, and dropped far outside Sandy Hook. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
Elise, relieved, tried to vent some of her indignation like a teakettle spouts steam.
On the other hand, if the good-for-nothing in the next cubicle earns five dollars more an hour than you do, that could be the source of great indignation, uneasiness, and unhappiness.
If you kill an opposition candidate, you create a martyr, with a groundswell of indignation on which his successor can ride into office.
Unknown, his eyes blazing with indignation, 'I'm brither to the corpp.' Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892
She be-knaved, be-rascalled, be-rogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
That was also when the righteous indignation returned. Times, Sunday Times
When the news struck the world's media, outrage and indignation were universal.
Corporate America and Wall Street have responded to the public vilification with indignation and surprise.
Great Regulars: The sonnet is powered by the momentum established in the sestet, and somehow maintains the intensity of its indignation through the weaker octet--because the political emotion is genuine. Archive 2009-02-01
Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. Past and Present
Two dummies, one dressed in a _simarre_ (gown) and the other in pontifical vestments, were burned on the Pont-Neuf: the soldiers, having been ordered to disperse the crowds, some persons were wounded and others killed; the mob had felt sure that they would not be fired upon, whatever disorder they showed; the wrath and indignation were great; there were threats of setting fire to the houses of MM. de Brienne and de Lamoignon; the quarters of the commandant of the watch were surrounded. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
The thoughts of becoming a subject of raillery for coxcombs, and losing my money to boot, stung me to the quick; but I made a virtue of my indignation, and swore that no man should with impunity either asperse the character of Melinda, or turn my behaviour into ridicule. The Adventures of Roderick Random
He was not pale like the rest, for he was not afraid of the chiseller, and the generous flush of a righteous indignation mounted to his calm face. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
The outraged wives of the hackmen assembled, and, to express their indignation at the tax, mobbed the offending members of Parliament on their way from the House. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
Four times he raised his voice, four times a cry of indignation drowned his words, and at length, seeing that he could obtain no farther hearing, he resumed his seat with an expression fiendishly malignant, and a fierce imprecation on Rome, and all that it contained. The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
I recall as a teenager the indignation I felt at being queue-jumped by old bags who decided that I didn't matter.
He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop. The Guardian World News
I feigned scorn and indignation but really I was just too scared to apply myself. 21 DOG YEARS
I remember getting up and feeling a mixture of self-pity and indignation.
As he retired, bursting with ineffectual indignation, Esdale was the first person whom Hartley chanced to meet with, and to him, stung with impatience, he communicated what he termed the infamous conduct of the The Surgeon's Daughter
We need to have righteous indignation on our side. We need to fight evil, yeah!
It can seem gripped with emotion or filled with raging indignation in equal parts. The Sun
All our indignation to the contrary, we prefer the complicated and difficult: we enjoy our buttons; we are withheld only by our queer sex-pride from wearing garments that button up in the back -- indeed, on what we frankly call our 'best clothes,' we _have the buttons_ though we _dare not button_ with them. The Perfect Gentleman
The indignation is compounded by evidence of gross corruption.
As a tag, "pedophile priest" readily and simplistically summons indignation that "ephebophile," a far more obscure word, does not. Priests and Boys: An Exchange
That was also when the righteous indignation returned. Times, Sunday Times
I think I just like saying I'm a pagan to enjoy the pain on the faces of all the Christians..pain first, then shock, then righteous indignation...hope your feeling better soon... A Declaration of Faith
There is a gap again because I stopped work, suddenly aware that an alien indignation was invading my soul.
Mark this up as an illustration of how damaging to the public interest is conspicuous indignation.
You swallow your righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
It didn’t mean she was a physical virgin, it meant she was a cockteaser who pretended to outraged indignation when a man tried to have sex with her, convinced that she wanted it. Naked Cruelty
Greek has a polysyllabic vocabulary and it is often easier to communicate using something approximating to English - something that drives defenders of the Greek language wild with indignation.
They contrasted strongly with the half-breeds, or mestizoes, who, repulsed like the former, vented their indignation in cries and protestations. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
However, we made up for it now by an outburst of indignation and resentment, especially violent on my part; whereupon, the sage Allie turned my own moral lecture, so lately delivered, upon myself, recalling my exhortations to the effect that we should be patient and forgiving with one so sorely afflicted as Matty Blair. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
The excommunication which he pronounced against his erring nephews was probably occasioned as much by the political grievances of his family as by righteous indignation at the despite done to the Council.
Indignation, even the fierce variety patented by Dr Barbara, had a short shelf life. RUSHING TO PARADISE
It raises the ill humour of mankind, excites the keener spirits, moves indignation in beholders and sows the very seeds of schism in men's bosoms.
It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses. Times, Sunday Times
We spurn from us with disgust and indignation the slanders of those who bring us their anecdotes with the attestation of the flower-de-luce on their shoulder. Paras. 125-149
He led his victim away in mournful triumph, leaving the girls in a high state of indignation, and with a slight hope that Miss Monteneros might eventually turn out his consoler. The Semi-Detached House
I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong.
That was also when the righteous indignation returned. Times, Sunday Times
He's 12 stone of sinew and muscle and righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
More years ago than I care to remember, we worked ourselves into a lather of indignation in student meetings over multinationals, looted funds and bribery in Africa.
It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses. Times, Sunday Times
I could scarcely compose myself, and must have betrayed indignation in my mien to the stranger, who was a counselor-at-law in the neighborhood, a man of engaging aspect and polite address. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Or would we feel at least some of the moral indignation that we feel today? Times, Sunday Times
Such things the apostle did not allow of, but did renounce and avoid with indignation: Not walking in craftiness, or in disguise, acting with art and cunning, but in great simplicity, and with open freedom. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
You swallow your righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes, in momentary reaction from the pent-up feelings of indignation and revolt, which were chronic with me during my imprisonments, I could have laughed out loud at the imbecility and pathos of human fallibility, that civilised (?) educated beings could continue such processes by way of ridding themselves from the dangers and active harmfulness of crime. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
FONTENELLE was never more gratified than when a Swede, arriving at the gates of Paris, inquired of the custom-house officers where Fontenelle resided, and expressed his indignation that not one of them had ever heard of his name. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
The wave, as has been described, is a concrete with an upward and a downward movement united; but its last constituent is that which most affects the ear and leaves upon it the stronger impression, and hence, especially if it be given with a wide interval, _its dominant characteristic will be that of the second movement_; for example, if the second movement be upward, the wave may express interrogation mingled with surprise or scorn; if the second movement be downward, the wave may express astonishment mingled with indignation. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
The deep angry remonstrant eyes, the shaggy eyebrows, telling tales of frequent anger — of anger frequent but generally silent — the repressed indignation of the habitual frown, the long nose and large powerful mouth, the deep furrows on the cheek, and the general look of thought and suffering, all combined to make the appearance of the man remarkable, and to describe to the beholders at once his true character. The Last Chronicle of Barset
There is only one problem with his moral indignation: the scheme worked. Times, Sunday Times
The Pie Committee disbanded itself in indignation, several of whom went down the pub instead, where there were rumours of a nice steak and kidney.
But that thou mightest, reader, both know, and with equal indignation abhor, the snarlings and virulency of these men, take it in their own words, although I cannot without infinite reluctancy allege what they with all audaciousness have uttered. From the Talmud and Hebraica
It really is quite remarkable the way in which those cute little white paws can convey such anger and indignation when they are scratching relentlessly on one's bedroom door.
Castalian rill whose dark waters are tinged with the gall of poetic indignation; but as in other sense I may not hang him, I will tell how he was driven from his club, and how he ceased to number himself among the legislators of his country. The Three Clerks
To his indignation, Charles found that his name was not on the list.
I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong.
I was wild with indignation and pity when I remembered how my poor brother had been cruelly tormented because he did not want to sit in heder and learn what was after all false or useless. The Promised Land
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
The film follows the family through their troubled beginnings, their shame and indignation following the charges and their subsequent disintegration.
My first reaction on discovering the burglary was disbelief, indignation and real sadness.
The ttyle is nervous and correct, the fentiments are manly, and the author's general notions of the efleoce of oar conttuuuon are juft: if ne in fome places feems to/peak of it With lets admiration than in others, it may be becaufe he was ihen under the influence of indignation agamic men who, while they flood up for the letter of the conftitut ion, were re - gardiefs of its fpirit, — as if all its excellence con lilted in forms and not in 1'abftancc. The Monthly Review
His response was one of high indignation.
‘I suppose, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick, his indignation rising while he spoke — ‘I suppose, Sir, that it is the intention of your employers to seek to criminate me upon the testimony of my own friends?’ The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Constantius soon experienced the truth of the prediction which honest indignation had extorted from his injured lieutenant, that as long as such maxims of government were suffered to prevail, the emperor himself would find it is no easy task to defend his eastern dominions from the invasion of a foreign enemy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
This public justice consists of ridicule for human foibles and indignation for human vices. The Times Literary Supplement
She turned angrily to her brothers, her eyes blazing with fierce indignation and rampant fury.
The target is changeable, the constant unchanging factor is indignation.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Che Guevara
Any righteous indignation on the part of the Americans at that stage was undermined by replays which suggested the offside decision was marginal.
In December 1879 great indignation was felt by all about the brutal assault against Mr Best because he had yarded some trespassing cattle and would not let them go before the owners had paid for the damages.
But it has the compelling authority that only intimate knowledge and great indignation can bring.
Belfield, with great indignation, demanded what he meant by the term impertinent fellow; and Sir Robert yet more insolently repeated it: Cecilia
The language of vainglory, of indignation, pity and revengefulness, optative: but of the desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called interrogative; as, What is it, when shall it, how is it done, and why so? Leviathan
As she talks, her voice is quivering with outrage and indignation. Times, Sunday Times
Their rapid increase is attributable not to any incestuous breeding in-and-in among themselves, but to a violent seduction of the President and the Heads of Department by importunate Congressmen; and you may rest assured that this criminal multiplication fills nobody with half so much righteous indignation and virtuous sorrow as the clerks themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
Her back was towards me; and Miss Rawlins, by pulling her sleeve, giving intimation of my being there — Can I have no retirement uninvaded, Sir, said she, with indignation, as if she were interrupted in some talk her heart was in? — Clarissa Harlowe
Now's the time when sports observers everywhere adopt a standard pose of indignation, a haughty pooh-poohing of the opinions of the masses.
_Erynnis_, from the indignation and perturbations they raise in the mind; _Eumenĭdes_, from their placability to such as supplicate them, as in the instance of Orestes, and Argos, upon his following the advice of Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
They will utter platitudes deploring the brutal murder of a pensioner; but what gets their adrenalin pumping is knee-jerk, liberal indignation at any proposals to make life hard for criminals.
That is what I call oppression!" returned Mr. Bacon, in momentary indignation, for the utterance of which he was as quickly repentant. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
But at least we can hope that the hundreds of thousands of men and women who signed petitions for Sakineh, on the La Règle du Jeusite or elsewhere, will remobilize, protest, shout their indignation, write to the authorities of their countries or even to the Iranian authorities. Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son
Our laughter soon turns to screeches of indignation.
Nay, they are rather wont to signalize iniquity than to chase it away, and hence arises our indignation that honours so often fall to the most iniquitous of men. Consolation of Philosophy
Anger and indignation swept America. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The dominant emotional reaction to the letter was shock and disbelief or anger and indignation.
He pictured the indignation of the station manager, his piggish panic at losing this lone jewel in his crown. SURE OF YOU
After the subsiding of the first surprise and indignation the agitation of his own thoughts too much occupied John's mind to admit of his being much diverted by the sorrows of his black boy; and Tom was too much affected by the dejectedness of his friend to entertain any lasting concern for the sable sufferer. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
You will be publicly lacerated by a few managers who will feel obliged to feign indignation that you didn't select his county's full-back/full-forward, whatever.
But although he affected great indignation he actually enjoyed engaging in controversy with his opponents. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
After all the righteous indignation, the slightly whiffy quotes from "authorities", the lectures on what a formal education might have taught me, this is the best you can do: "I could defend what I've said if I wanted to, I just don't want to, I'm busy"? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The response was a tidal wave of indignation from MPs, the vast majority of whom boycotted the questionnaire.
A giggle escaped Anna at the look of indignation on Kate's face and the sheepish grin on Ben's. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The hump-backed woman cast a meaningful glance at Cixi, whose mouth became firm with indignation.
She had been looking up files of old newspapers, and working herself up into a state of indignation with what she called the injustice and the hypocrisy of the prosecution. Chance
I do not wish to call your attention here to the disproportion of the sentence but to its remanence and to the astonishment if not downright indignation this situation provokes in all who cherish the United States because they cherish liberty. Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
Local councillors have reacted with dismay and indignation.
Their indignation is revealing, for it exposes a gaping hole in their original argument.
He's been a very successful campaigner, with moral indignation, about this unconscionable debt bondage that exists in the world today, and he's been a very effective campaigner from the outside.
His chest puffed out with indignation at the suggestion.
Her mouth opened in indignation as she sputtered incoherent, half-formed words.
But in Germany the outburst caused more shock and sorrow than anger or indignation.
I am seething with righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
It suggests a society, if not a nation, in which the connections between criminality and culture have become banal and where most have become inoculated against any indignation at the fact that those links exist.
You swallow your righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
I was one of those city editors, and I well recall his great earnestness, amounting almost to moral indignation.
He was burning with indignation.
But I have refined everything away by this time — anger, indignation, scorn itself. Nothing left but disgust.
Gwendolen looked at this butler in great indignation. CHARMED LIFE
Even those actor-managers who made no secret before the Committee of their contempt for the present operation of the censorship, and their indignation at being handed over to a domestic official as casual servants of a specially disorderly kind, demanded, not the abolition of the institution, but such a reform as might make it consistent with their dignity and unobstructive to their higher artistic aims. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
The class positively seethed with indignation when Julia won the award.
His face is increasingly frozen in a grotesque rictus of appalled indignation, which seems to be his default response to the world.
The one may use the term righteous indignation; the other, the word anger. A Handbook of Ethical Theory
In the minds of Chinese, this history inspires a strong sense of indignation.
When the children were brought back dirty, greasy, bedaubed, and so tired that they could hardly hold up their little heads, her indignation knew no bounds, and as she was perfectly fearless.
My indignation at their impertinence was swept away by my relief. RESCUING ROSE
Nor was it at all certain, in any one instance, where this exemplary chastisement overtook him, that the apparent unanimity of the actors went further than the _practical_ conclusion of "abating" the imperial nuisance, or that their indignation had settled upon the same offences. The Caesars
Solid though his enthusiasms were in the matter of medicine — his admiration of this city surgeon, his condemnation of that for tricky ways of persuading country practitioners to bring in surgical patients, his indignation about fee-splitting, his pride in a new X-ray apparatus — none of these beatified him as did motoring. Main Street
I guess it was moral indignation. Times, Sunday Times
The other is indignation at some historians' recourse to contingency and the counterfactual to unsettle old certainties.
Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued; but, a few seconds after the stranger had disappeared to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room with every particle of his hitherto – bottled – up indignation effervescing, from all parts of his countenance, in a perspiration of passion. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
How can some of that emotion be channelled to indignation about poverty and social injustice here too?
And that is why she deserves our pity, not our manufactured moral indignation or condemnation.
And the fact they're guided by newspaper editors, who know very well what the real world is like, but choose to ignore this in favour of manufactured indignation and synthetic outrage.
The first object on which the blacksmith's eyes rested kindled him with indignation, and recalled mortifying memories. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
As she talks, her voice is quivering with outrage and indignation. Times, Sunday Times
They are described as women who rose in righteous anger and indignation when a man tried to tamper with them.
He rolled his eyes at his mother, who was practically puffing up in indignation for the termagant who had all but threw him out of her home after the argument they had about the engagement.
Every hour thousands of people across the world pass into eternity, the vast majority of them unprepared to meet their Creator in his blazing holiness and indignation against sin.
This righteous indignation is at preposterous odds with a perfectly run-of-the-mill and rather sweet romantic comedy. Times, Sunday Times
Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter’s black ingratitude. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
Puis, offrons les fleurs les plus nobles palmes aux innocentes victimes d'une atroce cruauté, aux femmes, aux enfants martyrs, à cette jeune infirmière anglaise, coupable seulement de générosité et dont l'assassinat a soulevé d'indignation tout l'univers. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
I shall put moral indignation - or, more weakly, moral disapprobation - in the centre of this one.
He finally resigned from the Lords on Tuesday after a barrage of public indignation left him little choice. The Sun

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