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Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.
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Poetry examples for “indignant”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Her crown once more was on her brows;
And, with a faint, indignant flush,
And fainter smile, she gave her hand,
Read full poem →Who can recall
With what a welling of indignant tears
Love's simpleness first hears
Read full poem →And prayer perchance may win
A term to God's indignant mood
And the orgies of the multitude,
Read full poem →Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth.
To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven--
From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven--
Read full poem →One girl's caution made me sore,
Too indignant even to greet
That other had we chanced to meet.
Read full poem →But she cast them from her,
Haughty and indignant,
On the floor she threw them
Read full poem →His seat, where solitary sports are seen,
Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;
Around the world each needful product flies,
Read full poem →Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;