in high dudgeon
idiom
formal
: feeling and usually showing that one is angry or offended
She walked out of the meeting in high dudgeon.
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The biographer even gives the loss as the reason for the playwright’s leaving Athens in high dudgeon for the court of the tyrant Hieron.
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A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
The University of North Carolina’s plan for a new school for free speech put the faculty in high dudgeon and the school’s accreditor jumped to attention, promising to investigate.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
Radek Sikorski was in high dudgeon, and rightly so.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
On Thursday, the asymmetrical reaction from the two parties — with Democrats in high dudgeon and Republicans relatively muted — hinted at how the two sides may approach the issue in the midterm campaign.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
The University of North Carolina’s plan for a new school for free speech put the faculty in high dudgeon and the school’s accreditor jumped to attention, promising to investigate.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
Radek Sikorski was in high dudgeon, and rightly so.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
On Thursday, the asymmetrical reaction from the two parties — with Democrats in high dudgeon and Republicans relatively muted — hinted at how the two sides may approach the issue in the midterm campaign.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
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