indignant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Feeling or showing anger because something seems unfair or wrong.

   She was indignant when she was accused of cheating.

Common collocations

• indignant denial Adjective + noun

Borrowed from Latin indignāns, present participle of indignor (“to consider as unworthy, be angry or displeased at”), from in- (“privative”) + dignor (“to deem worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”).

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