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INDIGNANTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an indignant manner
Example:
Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
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Pertainym:
indignant (angered at something unjust or wrong)
Context examples:
The area door of Oberstein’s house had been left open the night before, and it was necessary for me, as Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings, to pass in and open the hall door.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Don't look at him!” said my aunt, as I turned my head indignantly, “but get me a coach, my dear, and wait for me in St. Paul's Churchyard.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
John is above such meanness, and I won't listen to you a minute if you talk so, cried Meg indignantly, forgetting everything but the injustice of the old lady's suspicions.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“That fellow,” said he, indignantly, “thinks of nothing but shewing off his own voice. This must not be.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“What a hard thing!” I exclaimed indignantly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I've been shaken, and I won't bear it!" growled Laurie indignantly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation he required, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Well, if that isn't the greatest rubbish I ever heard," cried Jo indignantly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Oh, shame, Miss Dartle! shame!” I said indignantly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
