as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the poker player became indignant at the accusation of cheating
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Recent Examples of indignant
Despite the fact that nobody present has any interest in ecclesiastical architecture, the meetings are hot with petty slights, indignant stares, fragile alliances and hostile incursions.
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New York Times, 3 May 2025
The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 7 May 2025
After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 May 2025
Before the arrest, some indignant residents took to social media to speculate about a possible motive — alleging without proof that unscrupulous developers or even the city itself may have orchestrated the acts.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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New York Times, 3 May 2025
The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 7 May 2025
After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 May 2025
Before the arrest, some indignant residents took to social media to speculate about a possible motive — alleging without proof that unscrupulous developers or even the city itself may have orchestrated the acts.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indignant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indignant
Adjective
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Freed of her caring duties, angry and uncertain about her future Karl gets on a Greyhound bus and heads to Las Vegas where Jean is working as a waitress at the El Cortez.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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The family defended themselves against an angry mob of hundreds of people who surrounded the house, throwing rocks and threatening the family, Duggan said.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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And plenty of fans are furious that Childers has embraced studio bells and whistles — there’s vocoder and drum loops on some songs — and is no longer singing exclusively about hardscrabble Appalachian life à la his 2017 debut Purgatory.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
4 Aug. 2025
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Taiwan’s progressives, furious at the resulting obstruction, thus gathered enough signatures to vote on recalling roughly a third of the KMT’s legislators.—
LEV NACHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Though it's deemed an accident in the play by Queen Gertrude, Ophelia was considered mad and the possibility of suicide was not ruled out.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Instead, this is an ice hockey-style slide-and-bump affair; hitting an opponent from the side simply gives an annoying temporary jolt (which also disrupts their shooting motion) while hitting an opponent head-on forces a loose ball turnover and a mad scramble for the ball.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
13 Aug. 2025
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Russian ballistic and cruise missiles then route around the defenses to strike their targets.—
ERIC SCHMIDT,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Aug. 2025
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Adding in the ballistic and cruise missiles dispatched, which are far more expensive per unit, brings the total price tag of Russia’s 2025 aerial campaign to almost $13.4 billion.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Indignant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indignant. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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