Indignation
[ɪndɪg'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪndɪɡ'neʃən]
Definition
(n.) The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
(n.) The effect of anger; punishment.
Typist: Wanda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Anger, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, rage, choler, exasperation.
Inputed by Bernard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Resentment, anger, denunciation, displeasure, exasperation, ire, wrath,protestation
ANT:Gratification, admiration, applause, approval, complacency
Editor: Stacy
Examples
- Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He lost the genial suavity of manner which is one of his greatest charMs. A noble indignation inspired his reply. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I felt myself reddening with indignation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We see so much malice and so little indignation in my profession. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He brought out his sentences in short violent jerks, as though they were forced up from a deep inner crater of indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I burn with indignation, and I ache with fatigue, was the way Miss Rachel summed it up, when I think of Franklin Blake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Stimulated either by this compliment, or by her burning indignation, that illustrious woman then added, 'Let him meet it if he can! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My uncle burned with indignation, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was a question whether gratitude which refers to what is done for one's self ought not to give way to indignation at what is done against another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- All the way to Stone Lodge, as with grave indignation he led the two delinquents home, he repeated at intervals 'What would Mr. Bounderby say? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Then is it your opinion, I inquired, with some little indignation, that a man should never-- --Invest portable property in a friend? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My guardian stopped and looked at him with a whimsical mixture of amusement and indignation in his face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checker: Thomas