nettled

How To Use nettled In A Sentence

• In conclusion, the inspector offered his resignation to the Board, being much nettled by an accusation of incompetence in the London papers.
• The nettled banks rose vertically and the barbed branches made it impossible to clamber up short of a mile or so downriver. Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
• I understood that Zannah was upset, and she had her reasons, but the cause of the effect didn't lie in my hands, and the way she was acting nettled me.
• One remark of Don's, however, nettled me for its pre-emptive protecting of the poet.
• She looked up at me sharply, clearly nettled by the interruption.
• It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really nettled him.
• This nettled Sam, as it was intended to do, and he played his most famous trick and favorite punch — a feint for a clinch and a right rip to the stomach. Chapter II
• Which is not what I came to see you about," I answered brusquely, somewhat nettled by their incomprehension. THE DESCENT
• This cool assumption that the sale was already consummated so perturbed Thayer, that, along with the sure knowledge that he had never seen so high a quality of rams, he was nettled into changing his order to twenty carloads. CHAPTER VIII
• Mr. Barton laughed with them, but he was vaguely nettled. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette