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Definition of dudgeon in English: dudgeonnoun ˈdʌdʒ(ə)nˈdədʒən mass nounA feeling of offence or deep resentment. the manager walked out in high dudgeon Example sentencesExamples - The whole thing had me in high dudgeon.
- And so we get ourselves in high dudgeon at injustices that may never have happened, because they are the kind of thing we would hate if they had happened.
- I promptly took myself off in high dudgeon to the nearest Little Chef and had an all-day breakfast for somewhat less than the price I would have been charged.
- But it wasn't just that inconsistency which distressed me: it was the feeling that he was on the verge of extreme dudgeon before I could press the matter one inch further.
- In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
- Although they were eventually put back on the rails, the bad odour lingered, and was not dispelled when a non-executive director quit in high dudgeon.
- By February, I was in a state of high dudgeon.
- Trusting soul that she is, Fanny related our conversation to the hotel manager the next day and came back in high dudgeon.
- Lin totally misunderstood that comment, and got up into a high dudgeon over what he felt was a slight to his courage.
- In high dudgeon he interjected, ‘You obviously don't watch the show.‘
- Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
- He's bald, has a bit of a belly and seems to be in high dudgeon for much of the day.
- Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
- At the same time, he is in high dudgeon these days over the trial.
- I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now.
- I am getting around to saying that as easygoing and nonconfrontational as San Diego is, the community this week has been in what, for it, represents a high dudgeon.
- On the night I visited the Goldminer's Inn the bloggers were in high dudgeon.
- But amid the high dudgeon, it's easy to miss that essentially what he was making is an affirmative-action argument.
- Of course, I don't know what the relevant understandings were on the Judiciary committee, but I have a hard time working myself into a high moral dudgeon over it.
- They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
Synonyms indignantly, resentfully, angrily, furiously, wrathfully in a temper, in indignation, in anger, with resentment, with displeasure, having taken offence, having taken umbrage informal in a huff, in a lather, in a paddy, foaming at the mouth, fit to be tied, as cross as two sticks, seeing red British informal, dated in a bate, in a wax
Origin Late 16th century: of unknown origin. Rhymes bludgeon, curmudgeon, gudgeon, trudgen Definition of dudgeon in US English: dudgeonnounˈdədʒənˈdəjən A feeling of offense or deep resentment. the manager walked out in high dudgeon Example sentencesExamples - By February, I was in a state of high dudgeon.
- In high dudgeon he interjected, ‘You obviously don't watch the show.‘
- Lin totally misunderstood that comment, and got up into a high dudgeon over what he felt was a slight to his courage.
- They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
- I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now.
- But it wasn't just that inconsistency which distressed me: it was the feeling that he was on the verge of extreme dudgeon before I could press the matter one inch further.
- He's bald, has a bit of a belly and seems to be in high dudgeon for much of the day.
- The whole thing had me in high dudgeon.
- But amid the high dudgeon, it's easy to miss that essentially what he was making is an affirmative-action argument.
- On the night I visited the Goldminer's Inn the bloggers were in high dudgeon.
- Of course, I don't know what the relevant understandings were on the Judiciary committee, but I have a hard time working myself into a high moral dudgeon over it.
- I am getting around to saying that as easygoing and nonconfrontational as San Diego is, the community this week has been in what, for it, represents a high dudgeon.
- Although they were eventually put back on the rails, the bad odour lingered, and was not dispelled when a non-executive director quit in high dudgeon.
- Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
- In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
- I promptly took myself off in high dudgeon to the nearest Little Chef and had an all-day breakfast for somewhat less than the price I would have been charged.
- Trusting soul that she is, Fanny related our conversation to the hotel manager the next day and came back in high dudgeon.
- And so we get ourselves in high dudgeon at injustices that may never have happened, because they are the kind of thing we would hate if they had happened.
- At the same time, he is in high dudgeon these days over the trial.
- Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
Synonyms indignantly, resentfully, angrily, furiously, wrathfully
Origin Late 16th century: of unknown origin. |