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Discover LudwigThe phrase "indignant by" is not correct and usable in written English.
You would need to use the phrase "indignant about" instead. Example: She was indignant about the suggestion that she was not qualified for the job.
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Who could have failed to be rendered indignant by the diktat ordering British bar-maids' cleavages to be covered, or Brussels' insistence that British trawler crews wear hairnets?
We asked Todd Haggerty if the Rapids were an underrated side this year, or if they'd stolen those points (just to see if he got really indignant): By hook or by crook, that seems to be the theme of the Rapids' 2014 season.
Good news for the IMF, which has suffered dry years as emerging lenders sprung up in the developing world and potential recipients shun the fund, justly frightened and indignant by the economic policies that will be foisted on them as a result of borrowing.
The issues don't affect them other than monopolizing their nightly news, which makes them less sympathetic and increasingly indignant by all the Black Lives Matter rhetoric.
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Grassley was prompted in part by "The Price of Admission," an indignant book by a Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Golden, which charged that big donors to private colleges are, in effect, buying slots for their children by giving gifts that are tax-deductible for the giver and tax-free for the recipient.
SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT: Stories, by Lydia Davis.
For the second straight day, the National Basketball Referees Association went on the offensive, which prompted another swift and indignant response by the N.B.A.
Better still is The Duhks' take on "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", which builds from articulate disquiet to indignant disgust; by comparison, Shelby Lynne's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and Lucinda Williams' "Positively 4th Street" are simply slowed-down kiss-off ballads.
Take the Times the other morning: a resounding letter headed "Awareness of Issues Asked," a studious appeal to protect forest preserves- an indignant attack by a Gaines Dog Research man on the superstition that dog days are associated with hydrophobia...and a letter from a reader in Monroe, N. Y. (transplanted milkweed).
Yesterday it carried an indignant article by Fiachra Gibbons, a writer based in Paris, who simply assumed that blame for the atrocity was to be put on the French right:Police are a long way yet from catching, never mind understanding, what was going through the head of someone who could catch a little girl by the hair so he wouldn't have to waste a second bullet on her.
I'd like to conclude this rightfully indignant rant by taking personal responsibility.
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