dudgeon
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European leaders issued a joint statement External link in high dudgeon on Tuesday, insisting that “Greenland belongs to its people.”
From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026
But that high dudgeon, he notes, is “as good a proof as any that it’s not just a puzzle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
So why has the most recent adaptation — Carrie Cracknell’s spicy version of “Persuasion,” now streaming on Netflix — sent so many viewers to their fainting couches, heaving in high dudgeon?
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
When I asked Lewis about this on a 2019 panel at the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, he worked himself into a moral dudgeon over being accused of a racial gerrymander.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 2021
As you may know, “dudgeon” is a word that describes feeling cross, and to be in high dudgeon means feeling very cross indeed.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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