Sentence examples for false outrage from inspiring English sources

poutrage: False outrage, usually put on for personal, financial or political gain.

Hanlon: His missteps have been gleefully met at each turn by collective false outrage, schadenfreude and thoughtless piling on.

How long would this genius, wanton despoiler of women's virtue, feckless dad and irresponsible drinker have lasted in this present Scotland of false outrage and easy condemnation?

All he could do was muscle up a fading fastball of what appeared to be false outrage Sunday night for "60 Minutes".

He still felt, though, that Democrats would not be well served trying to play in the same realms of fake news and false outrage that Trump rumbled through on the way to the White House.

Eric Cantor's most recent tantrum in response to the Occupy Wall Street is characterized by false outrage and political analysis that cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called rigorous, or even thoughtful.

Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, accused Mr. Fehrnstrom of "faux outrage" and said Mr. Romney has been the one leveling false attacks.

Especially the killing of hundreds innocent young men, falsely presented as war causalities (in Colombia they are euphemistically called false positives), provokes outrage in this representative of Massachusetts -- as does in several of his colleagues in Congress.

To the Editor: David Brooks tries to minimize by false equivalence the outrage many Americans, and not only those in the Occupy Wall Street movement, feel in response to our country's inequality of income and wealth.

There should be no post-show bleating about being "taken out of context", or trying to climb back down the ladder of controversy to safer, blander ground – comedians should not be cowed by stupid, poorly researched articles trying to whip up false and forgettable outrage.

It is possible to read their outrage as false fury in the election home stretch.