Sentence examples for feign indignation from inspiring English sources

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And let's not feign indignation: We're already talking to Tehran.

When the union inevitably balks, the owners feign indignation, complaining that the players won't compromise even though compromising would play into the owners' hands.

When a young receiver grows alligator arms on a shallow crossing route over the middle, Ward will be there to feign indignation.

Therefore, it's safe to say that the latest VA crisis and the deaths of veterans in Arizona served as convenient opportunity for the GOP to feign indignation over issues veterans have faced for years.

Republicans, he told an audience in Maine, 'don't give a s— about the people they're trying to hurt.' The Trump administration's 'skinny budget' was, in point of fact, a 's ty budget.' … 'I'm always amused that Republicans feign indignation when they hear the word "s—" or "bulls—" out of Tom Perez, and they observe what Donald Trump has been saying for decades,' Perez said….

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Milanovic feigned indignation.

"Not unless you give me three bucks," the passenger said, feigning indignation.

In a meeting between the pair and an HBOS banker, Paul Stirrat, Kallakis "feigned indignation" and became "aggressive", Temple said: "Kallakis was possessed of a forceful personality, and his blandishments had the desired effect.

Again and again, Mr. Fiske sought to undermine her by eliciting that in the past she had denied wrongdoing, and even feigned indignation, when questioned by government investigators, Sotheby's board, an outside company counsel and the press.

Nigel Pearson feigned indignation at being linked to and asked about the vacant Leicester job, then promptly traded the KC Stadium for the Kung Pao Bowl or whatever Leicester's home is called.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister, has regained respect for belatedly pushing through reforms that cost him his leadership.Mr Berlusconi's friends feigned indignation at his treatment; supporters organised a "laugh-in" outside the French embassy in Rome Germanyy commands greater courtesy).

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