Synonym
Meaning of indignation in English
(Definition of indignation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of indignation
indignation
Merchants pragmatically expressed their indignation at usurers and bankrupts as violators of the charity, moderation, and prudence they themselves claimed to display.
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And when the bond was dishonoured, there was reason for indignation and distress.
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Nonetheless, the passion and indignation of its author put a vitally important moral issue before us.
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But we must learn to quash any such small-minded indignation.
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This was not so much class action as moral indignation that the rules of the reciprocal relationship had been ignored.
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There is an attractive indignation behind this argument against not only philosophical historicism but also the historicism of the social sciences.
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This combination of features seems connected to both the unilateral departure and the state of indignation that also becomes evidently present.
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Alberdi wanted to unleash an explosion of uncontrollable indignation, he succeeded.
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We are indignant, and we feel that indignation as offense.
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What basis can they have for moral indignation, when they freely and repeatedly contradict their words through their actions?
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His descriptions of adulterated coins are remarkably free of moral indignation at this corruption of sound money.
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When faced with a serious injustice, controlled selfdiscipline requires righteous indignation, which could easily take the form of anger, but not of malicious revenge.
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The caller ends her laughter first, however, and then produces well in a tone that suggests mock indignation.
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Righteous indignation and concern for the innocent might require nonpeaceful action.
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An honest conversation, he maintains, will spur understanding, indignation, and reformation.
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öfke, kızgınlık, içerleme…
indignation [feminine], indignation…
憤（いきどお）り…
verontwaardiging…
rozhorlenost…
indignation, forargelse…
kemarahan…
ความโกรธเคือง…
sự phẫn nộ…
oburzenie…
indignation…
kemarahan…
die Entrüstung…
indignasjon [masculine], harme, forargelse…
обурення…
возмущение, негодование…
