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in high dudgeon
Furiously, resentfully, as in He stormed out in high dudgeon. This term is the only surviving use of the word dudgeon, whose origin has been lost. [c. 1600]
Example Sentences
It's not just the financial press in high dudgeon over his policies.
But now they're in high dudgeon because they refuse to accept a world where a Black woman has the right to make accusations against a rich white man.
So why has the most recent adaptation — Carrie Cracknell’s spicy version of “Persuasion,” now streaming on Netflix — sent so many viewers to their fainting couches, heaving in high dudgeon?
In high dudgeon, I asked what the point was of taking the time to go to their site, and paying more, when I could have had the same experience at the Stanford health center, effectively for free?
And slamming the door in Meg’s face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon.
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