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incensed
[ in-senst ]
adjective
- inflamed with anger; enraged:
"I will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within my administration!" said the incensed mayor, filled with righteous indignation.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of incense 2( def ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of incensed1
Example Sentences
They were so incensed that they resigned and founded another journal, October, which remains an influential voice among old-guard supporters of the avant-garde.
You can first identify leakage points by turning on your kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans, creating a slight pressure differential between indoors and outdoors, then holding up a lit incense stick to potential problem areas.
They voted with their feet, like the Fox News viewers incensed by the network's accurate 2020 election coverage who switched to Newsmax.
There’s a humorous element to seeing fans angrily tweet at royal family accounts, incensed by what they have just witnessed O’Connor or Olivia Colman’s Elizabeth enact on-screen.
Despite the 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v Heller which established a right to bear arms for self-defence, conservatives have become increasingly incensed at state and local laws governing gun ownership.
In a Hot Springs, Arkansas, stud-poker game, a player named Burke became justly incensed one evening because he could not win.
Her incensed mother contacted a lawyer, hoping to block publication; Polanski had not made her sign a release.
The family, villagers, and the Taliban were even incensed by a shampoo commercial, featuring Humira, which played on television.
It incensed the students, to the extent that they actually shouted me down.
Snipes became further incensed when he learned that Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel had been hired to co-star in the film.
But there's no denying that I behaved disgracefully to—you know—and Dr. Ashton has good reason to be incensed.
It may be, of course, that the responsibility was thrown on the lady in order to restrain the hand of the incensed king.
But mother and Maxim bravely defended Stenka, and I was deeply incensed at father, who despotically terminated the discussion.
M. d'Infreville, justly incensed against me, had not left me a sou, and my mother and I became terribly poor.
This action incensed the emperor, who immediately dispatched an army of eighty thousand men against the city.
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