noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bristle with rage/indignation etc
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John pushed back his chair, bristling with rage.
quiver with indignation/anger etc
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I lay there quivering with fear.
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His voice was quivering with rage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
moral
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It would be easy to direct our moral indignation in that direction.
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But moral indignation ought principally to be reserved for ourselves.
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On the other hand cattle stealing did not rouse general moral indignation .
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From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon.
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But the Commissioner, enjoying a high state of moral indignation , looked for no explanation.
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Mr. Garel-Jones Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman's shoulders, particularly on this matter.
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Indeed notions of moral indignation , moral panic or moral conflict are not used in this perspective at all.
righteous
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Suddenly it was not the sunlight that made Polly glow but righteous indignation .
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Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation .
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The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.
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I loved the little note of righteous indignation .
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He asked with no malice, with no thoughts of righteous indignation and she sensed this and answered his questions.
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There was much stamping of ministerial feet, but, sadly, this show of righteous indignation led to very little action.
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Farmers, full of righteous indignation , were insulted that their professionalism should be questioned.
■ VERB
arouse
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The cold-blooded murder of a hospitalisation case has aroused great public indignation .
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It is the stereotyped image of the helpless female which arouses modern indignation .
quiver
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The nurse's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mock surprise/horror/indignation etc
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No wrong questions, no mock surprise.
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She threw up her hands in mock horror as the little pomeranian ran yapping among the guests.
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With mock surprise, he settled into the love seat, draping his arms along its top.
righteous indignation/anger etc
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Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation.
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He asked with no malice, with no thoughts of righteous indignation and she sensed this and answered his questions.
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Her righteous anger moved him, filled him with a weird sense of shame that jarred him.
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His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.
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I loved the little note of righteous indignation.
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Suddenly it was not the sunlight that made Polly glow but righteous indignation.
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The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.
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The great goddess Nemesis, which means righteous anger, undertook to bring this about.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the comic form he has chosen is too brittle to contain his appalled indignation .
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He showed no fear or indignation .
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It is the stereotyped image of the helpless female which arouses modern indignation .
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Much of this indignation was justified.
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Orestes proposed eagerly, but Iphigenia rejected the idea with indignation .
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The proposal has evoked both indignation and humour with suggestions as to how art treasures can be divided by their national characteristics.
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They saw them as contradictions, occasions for elaborated ironies, for indignation and anger.