dudgeon

Later, one supportive caller, in high dudgeon, dreams of a German future with a “return to morality.”

It's not just the financial press in high dudgeon over his policies.

But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.

But now they're in high dudgeon because they refuse to accept a world where a Black woman has the right to make accusations against a rich white man.

A synonym for “winsome” is “cheerful,” but she is in medium dudgeon about the latest strangeness from the public schools of Fairfax County, Va., an affluent Washington suburb.