righteously indignant
Frequency: 5.02.5 per million words
Feeling indignant because you believe you are morally right and have been wronged.
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Examples (20)
- ‘He deserves to be punished,’ she protested, righteously indignant.
- She became righteously indignant at the blatant injustice.
- The activists were righteously indignant about the environmental destruction.
- The citizens were righteously indignant over the government's broken promises.
- He became righteously indignant when his efforts were dismissed without consideration.
- He spoke with a righteously indignant voice about the exploitation of workers.
- Her righteously indignant response quickly silenced the critics.
- It's perfectly understandable to feel righteously indignant when your trust is betrayed.
- Many citizens felt righteously indignant after the scandalous revelations.
- The article contained a righteously indignant critique of corporate greed.
- She spoke with righteously indignant passion against the injustice.
- Activists grew righteously indignant as they witnessed the environmental damage.
- The child was righteously indignant that his toy had been taken without permission.
- Were you not righteously indignant when you heard the news?
- They expressed their righteously indignant disapproval of the new policy.
- Such acts of cruelty invariably provoke a righteously indignant response.
- To be righteously indignant about such an act is a natural human reaction.
- I will always be righteously indignant about discrimination in any form.
- The teacher grew righteously indignant at the blatant cheating.
- Even years later, she remained righteously indignant about the false accusations.