indignant

Modifying Another Word

• highly: Luckily, help was at hand as I could never have pulled two drenched and highly indignant ewes from the Atlantic.
• quite: He asked me questions which made me quite indignant.
• rather: Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans abroad.
• so: Vera becomes so indignant that Jim sends her home, and has a serious talk with Terry.
• very: Yesterday, I had a call for a very indignant man.
• righteously: I personally don't recall any righteously indignant posts in Blogland for those people.

Preposition: at

• idea: Some students even grew indignant at the idea of valuing honor above life, calling the whole notion nonsense.
• waste: Matthew says that the disciples were indignant at the waste.

Modifies a noun

• protest: I should say, no determined and indignant nation-wide protest.
• letter: I wrote him an indignant letter, the main gist of which was, " Don't flog the willing horse " .
• response: The comment was no doubt intended for dramatic effect and predictably drew an indignant response.
• reply: He asked what speed I was doing - " exactly 40, you knew I had seen you " was indignant reply.
• man: An indignant young man accuses him of being merely nostalgic.
• head: I was all set to work up an indignant head of steam about this when a thought occurred.

Used with adjective complement

• wax: Curiously, very few people get worked up about this UK situation compared to the numbers who wax indignant about EU fraud.
• feel: Some people dash off letters to editors of newspapers regularly whenever they feel indignant about something.
• become: Vera becomes so indignant that Jim sends her home, and has a serious talk with Terry.
• look: His friends looked indignant, which only caused him to laugh even harder.
• get: I was getting indignant at being asked what I thought were stupid questions by him.
• grow: Some students even grew indignant at the idea of valuing honor above life, calling the whole notion nonsense.