high dudgeon


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a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon')

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The relative actually walked out in high dudgeon, unable to believe how people seemed to be enjoying themselves too much at what was essentially a sad occasion.
Sturgeon is cranking up the gear marked "high dudgeon" when it comes to demanding a say in Brexit agriculture powers, while steering well clear of the mess engulfing her agriculture minister Fergus Ewing.
The same New York Times that had been in high dudgeon about the president from the moment he came to power now devoted almost every column inch to the steadfastness of the commander-in-chief, who had acted to teach the world (meaning China, Russia, and North Korea) a fine lesson.
Pro-abortionists, as always, were in high dudgeon. Laura McQuade is president of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, one of PPFA's largest affiliates.
Pryor, the obvious godfather of the Hart style--a fusion of raging high dudgeon and scaredy-cat confession --sometimes raised his voice in the mock-scolding tones, but Hart tends to raise his voice and keep it raised.
He started the business in high dudgeon on finding himself PS5,000 worse off though innocent himself in a crash his Jaguar was involved in.
In a state of high dudgeon, Ms Parker said she didn't need to lose weight and was perfectly healthy - hard to believe of someone who's at least five stones fatter than she should be, whose obesity makes her susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, asthma, arthritis and God knows what else and who, I noticed, was breathless after walking just a few yards.
I was in a meeting the other day when a man across the table went into a high dudgeon about assisted suicide, which he opposed vociferously; he was still bitter and not a little enraged that citizens in our state were by law allowed to pursue such an ending to their lives, after slowly proceeding through various legal checkpoints.
He refused and stalked off through the crowd in a high dudgeon through the bemused fans in the roadway.
This incited Bob to a fit of high dudgeon (which is common for him) because back in the old days when he drove a 1962 Morgan, he could tune the engine himself.
Nevertheless, this is a valuable book about an important American figure whose persistent high dudgeon may have lessened his capacity to play the conventional political game of his time but ultimately rendered him a formidable personage of American political philosophy." Robert w.
Last week, just before Obama leapt to high dudgeon with condemnation of Putin for his "breach of international law", the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed piece that provided illuminating context for such presidential righteousness.
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