sense of outrage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandoutrage
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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outrage
noun
uk/ˈaʊt.reɪdʒ/us/ˈaʊt.reɪdʒ/
a feeling of anger ...
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(Definition ofsenseandoutragefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Asenseofoutrageand of action is warranted.
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To justify theirsenseofoutrage, they raised emperor-worship to absurd levels and adopted the code of bushido.
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Thissenseofoutrage, however, while real, was not the only consideration at work.
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We cannot show the world that we have asenseofoutrageabout it if we are sending arms to assist, perhaps, in the suppression.
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These proposals will increase thesenseofoutrage.
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There is an additionalsenseofoutrageabout the way in which, as they allege, the policy was carried out.
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While thesenseofoutrageis natural, the unthinking responses that we have heard from some quarters are neither rational nor helpful.
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Then, as now, there was a deepsenseofoutrage.
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And once again there is a deep and realsenseofoutrage.
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I should like once again to express oursenseofoutrage.
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Understandably, there is a greatsenseofoutragein my constituency.
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Had they been guided by that debate, they might have understood our realsenseofoutrage.
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I share thesenseofoutragethat people are held without trial.
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We should feel thatsenseofoutragenow.
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He can then communicate oursenseofoutragethat children should be brought into this matter.
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She told him of hersenseofoutrageand invasion and the profound difficulty that she now experienced in sleeping at night.
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Only a short time later our stomachs have heaved again with a freshsenseofoutrage.
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I find it almost impossible to describe mysenseofoutrageat these mindless acts of savagery and my utter condemnation of those responsible.
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I remember vividly, as a shop steward some years ago, thesenseofoutragewhen my own employers refused to recognise our union.
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It is not enough just to react emotionally or with asenseofoutragethat anyone should question our present arrangements.
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