here's "indignity" again
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Mon Feb 6 18:55:10 UTC 2006
I posted to ADS-L back in Nov calling attention to this substitution of
"indignity" for "indignation":
>Dennis Hastert, chastising the Democrats during the debate on the spending
>bill in the House today, singled out their "moral indignity" as over the
>top (or words to that effect) .....
and I find it happening again in Jim Hightower's column (/Progressive
Populist/ vol 12, no 3): " 'I can't be bought by a few thousand bucks
from Abramoff,' they typically declared with puffed-up indignity."
Is this a trend?
AM
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