be indignant

Example Sentences

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If people are going to be indignant about ever taking any ideas from any other country, that's the end of cuisine.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

I asked if he had a message for this city full of folks who will be indignant that James’ name even appears in the same sentence as the hallowed Mamba.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2020

I understand that we cannot be indignant about everything all the time or we would never sleep.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2018

In a self-published cookbook titled “Are You Game?,” he offers this assessment of animal-rights protesters: “It’s easy to pass judgment and be indignant, when you go home to your house in the suburbs.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 26, 2016

I stood for a minute, speechless and flummoxed, too tired to be indignant.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson