be indignant

Example Sentences

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If people are going to be indignant about ever taking any ideas from any other country, that's the end of cuisine.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

I asked if he had a message for this city full of folks who will be indignant that James’ name even appears in the same sentence as the hallowed Mamba.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2020

You could be indignant about not being born a Roosevelt or a Rockefeller, but it was harder to complain about not getting high enough SAT scores for the Ivy League.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2017

In a self-published cookbook titled “Are You Game?,” he offers this assessment of animal-rights protesters: “It’s easy to pass judgment and be indignant, when you go home to your house in the suburbs.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 26, 2016

Amari still wasn’t sure of how she felt about Polly, who at first seemed to be indignant that she wasn’t working in the big house.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper