dudgeon

Example Sentences

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But that high dudgeon, he notes, is “as good a proof as any that it’s not just a puzzle.”

From Los Angeles Times

“In high dudgeon, they exclaimed that ‘no quarter’ once meant that a military force would take no prisoners, but instead shoot them.”

From Fox News

“I was not immune to high dudgeon myself.”

From New York Times

Musk asserts that the county’s action is, as he tweeted Friday, “absurd & medically irrational ... in violation of constitutional civil liberties,” but his dudgeon does not in itself make a constitutional, much less medical, case.

From Los Angeles Times

Tucker Carlson was in particularly high dudgeon Tuesday night, his brow wrinkled in rueful anger as he launched into a public scolding on his Fox News program.

From Washington Post