as in huff
the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity
stomped off in high dudgeon after having his honor questioned
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Recent Examples of dudgeon
Beck is in a state of high dudgeon, because there’s a big shipment due and two of his drivers are AWOL.
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, the high dudgeon now heard in Tennant’s fey voice gives too much weight to the smugness of group-thinkers.
—Armond White, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
Truth Social, meanwhile, is its own, strange creature: a social media platform born out of Donald Trump’s dudgeon at being banned from Facebook and Twitter due to his posts on those platforms.
—Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2024
But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
His appeal lies in the contrast between this tone of absolute sincerity, which often escalates into high dudgeon, and the nature of his obsessions, which run toward jarring combinations of the stupefyingly mundane and the elaborately scatological.
—Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 17 June 2022
Dederer is at her best on such complicities—her own fondness for assholes, our cultural fascination with monsters—and less convincing when in a dudgeon, or deploying her feelings and experiences as intellectual credentials.
—Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
The antics of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers — whipped into high dudgeon by right-wing politicians who generally wear masks and are fully vaccinated — set off progressives, some of whose worst tendencies are sneering, condescension and sanctimoniousness.
—Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021
Radek Sikorski was in high dudgeon, and rightly so.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dudgeon
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Volunteers were charged around 25 cents per huff, bringing in good profit for those who’d invested in the necessary gas tanks, tubes, and breathing bags.—
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The huffs and hums, produced by two women standing face-to-face and vocalizing from their throats, is believed to be one of the oldest music forms in the world.—
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Each take, often running over 12 minutes long, captured the rawness of her journey — her anger, her tears, and her vulnerability.—
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Tapping into his own anger helped bring Kelly's character out, Sullivan explains.—
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If Jude’s previous two fiction films were Molotov cocktails of indignation, his latest secretes a kind of scentless poison that gets at the banality with which social injustices are processed and rationalized.—
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There was a pervasive sense of indignation from current and former European officials, who have funneled significant aid to Ukraine and are deeply worried about how a ceasefire deal could impact the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) eastern edge.—
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The speech in Germany, stunned European allies who took umbrage with Vance’s remarks chastising the European nations over free speech rights and mass migration problems.—
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Erin Blanchfield also weighed in, and took umbrage with the look and design as well.—
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But as Dougherty Valley continued to miss shots, the frustration started to show.—
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The meeting created a lot of anxiety and frustration in the Ukrainian government, which is concerned about a U.S.-Russian deal behind Kyiv's back.—
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The former Modern Family star couldn't help but playfully express her exasperation with Foster being named the winner of Best Female Actor in a Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film for her role in True Detective: Night Country.—
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The midfielder, born in the north Liverpool suburb of West Derby and part of the academy since the age of five, still set up two of Everton’s three goals, but there were moments of visible frustration and several cries of exasperation when his runs forward were not found by a team-mate.—
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There’s a knowing performative element to Singer’s pique, yet Freedman’s passion appears genuine, even personal.—
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Notwithstanding his pique at Biden’s treatment of him, MBS is looking to the United States to provide a more reliable deterrent against Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions and more effective means for Saudi Arabia to defend itself against the missile and drone attacks of Iran’s proxies.—
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“Dudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dudgeon. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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