indignant

INDIG'NANT, a. [L. indignans, from indignor, to disdain; in and dignor,dignus.] Affected at once with anger and disdain; feeling the mingled emotions of wrath and scorn or contempt,as when a person is exasperated at one despised, or by a mean action, or by the charge of a dishonorable act. Goliath was indignant at the challenge of David.