as in huff
the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity
stomped off in high dudgeon after having his honor questioned
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Recent Examples of dudgeon
Maybe the high public dudgeon is just envy masquerading as principle.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
12 June 2026
Beck is in a state of high dudgeon, because there’s a big shipment due and two of his drivers are AWOL.
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Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
Close’s game, canny performance of reliving her own past couldn’t quite obscure the ungainliness of some of Webber’s songs, the dudgeon and occasional monotony of the sung-through score, or the strain of trying to generate plot friction in a story with only four major characters.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2024
Instead, the high dudgeon now heard in Tennant’s fey voice gives too much weight to the smugness of group-thinkers.
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Armond White,
National Review,
18 Sep. 2024
Truth Social, meanwhile, is its own, strange creature: a social media platform born out of Donald Trump’s dudgeon at being banned from Facebook and Twitter due to his posts on those platforms.
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Samanth Subramanian,
Quartz,
23 Mar. 2024
But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Oct. 2023
But the movement is flummoxed now that its style of one-way dialogue and high-dudgeon shaming is provoking sharp backlash from illiberal strongmen, right-wing populists, and the mass constituencies that support these strongmen around the globe.
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Jack Snyder,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2022
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
12 June 2026
Beck is in a state of high dudgeon, because there’s a big shipment due and two of his drivers are AWOL.
—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
Close’s game, canny performance of reliving her own past couldn’t quite obscure the ungainliness of some of Webber’s songs, the dudgeon and occasional monotony of the sung-through score, or the strain of trying to generate plot friction in a story with only four major characters.
—
Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2024
Instead, the high dudgeon now heard in Tennant’s fey voice gives too much weight to the smugness of group-thinkers.
—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 Sep. 2024
Truth Social, meanwhile, is its own, strange creature: a social media platform born out of Donald Trump’s dudgeon at being banned from Facebook and Twitter due to his posts on those platforms.
—
Samanth Subramanian,
Quartz,
23 Mar. 2024
But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Oct. 2023
But the movement is flummoxed now that its style of one-way dialogue and high-dudgeon shaming is provoking sharp backlash from illiberal strongmen, right-wing populists, and the mass constituencies that support these strongmen around the globe.
—
Jack Snyder,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dudgeon
Noun
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Devers walked back to the dugout in a huff.
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David walks out of the kitchen and Moira huffs and takes his spot over the pot.
Noun
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Research shows over half of American travelers feel exhausted, with one in five admitting to booking a trip out of anger.
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Newsom, eyeing a presidential run in 2028, has spoken in recent months about populist anger directed towards tech executives whose companies have earned billions while their products threaten to automate jobs out of existence and suck up precious environmental resources.
Noun
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The video went viral, encapsulating the prevalent mood of indignation about official nonaction.
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He was deservedly sent off after a reckless foul on Pau Cubarsi, before grabbing the referee’s arm and tossing it to the side in indignation.
Noun
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Others like Charles Johnson took umbrage with the new rankings.
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Some will take umbrage about tinkering about with the Robin Hood mythos like that.
Noun
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Those frustrations could be on the verge of boiling over.
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But without knowing the reasons behind those decisions, the criticism amounts to nothing more than frustrations over unmet expectations.
Noun
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When even her attempts at enjoying life’s simpler pleasures — like some chicken parm and coconut cream pie at home with a glass of wine — go tragically awry, Patricia’s disappointment and exasperation are both hilarious and painfully palpable.
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Around midday, a group of disappointed Alaskans emerged from their state’s pavilion with exasperation.
Noun
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Unlike the 13 colonies, East and West Florida were largely unaffected by the British Stamp Act and other taxes that fueled resentment elsewhere because the colonies produced relatively little for the British colonial economy.
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When a leader isn't accountable to the process, the word becomes a do-as-I-say cliché that breeds resentment instead of results.
Noun
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More precisely, the questions sent Trump into a fit of pique.
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Lubatti’s Berenger is an old baby, given to tantrums and fits of pique.
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“Dudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dudgeon. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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