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Nettled

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    annoyed; offended

    "Mrs Fitzpatrick was a little nettled at this; and indeed, if it may not be called a lapse of the tongue, it was a small deviation from politeness in Jones, and into which he scarce would have fallen, had not the delight he felt in praising Sophia hurried him out of all reflection; for this commendation of one cousin was more than a tacit rebuke on the other."

Adjective
  1. 1
    aroused to impatience or anger wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of nettle form-of, participle, past

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