Outrage
noun
A strong feeling of shock and anger.
The decision to close the local hospital has caused public outrage.
Often appears as...
- cause outrage
- public outrage
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Disapproving
noun
An action that is shocking, immoral, or very wrong.
It's an outrage that these buildings of historical interest are being allowed to decay.
Often appears as...
- consider it an outrage
- it's an outrage
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Disapproving
verb
To cause someone to feel very angry, shocked, or upset.
Her comments have outraged teachers across the country.
Often appears as...
- outraged by
- outraged at
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Disapproving
verb
To violate or transgress something (such as a law or morality).
He was outraged by the law and decided to protest against it.
Often appears as...
- outraged the law
- outraged morality
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Disapproving
Legal
noun
A strong feeling of shock and anger.
The decision to close the local hospital has caused public outrage.
Often appears as...
- cause outrage
- public outrage
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An action that is shocking, immoral, or very wrong.
It's an outrage that these buildings of historical interest are being allowed to decay.
Often appears as...
- consider it an outrage
- it's an outrage
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To cause someone to feel very angry, shocked, or upset.
Her comments have outraged teachers across the country.
Often appears as...
- outraged by
- outraged at
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To violate or transgress something (such as a law or morality).
He was outraged by the law and decided to protest against it.
Often appears as...
- outraged the law
- outraged morality
Usage tips
Disapproving
Legal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'outrage' to describe extremely strong reactions, beyond regular anger or annoyance.
The community felt outrage at the new law.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Response
'Public outrage' often refers to widespread anger shared by a group or society.
The politician's scandal sparked public outrage.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Trigger
The cause of outrage is usually an event considered grossly unfair or unjust.
The unfair trial verdict caused widespread outrage.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'outrage' to describe extremely strong reactions, beyond regular anger or annoyance.
The community felt outrage at the new law.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Response
'Public outrage' often refers to widespread anger shared by a group or society.
The politician's scandal sparked public outrage.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Trigger
The cause of outrage is usually an event considered grossly unfair or unjust.
The unfair trial verdict caused widespread outrage.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'outrage' to describe extremely strong reactions, beyond regular anger or annoyance.
The community felt outrage at the new law.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Response
'Public outrage' often refers to widespread anger shared by a group or society.
The politician's scandal sparked public outrage.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Trigger
The cause of outrage is usually an event considered grossly unfair or unjust.
The unfair trial verdict caused widespread outrage.
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How a handful of tech...
Of this race for attention. It's the classic race to the bottom when you have to get attention, and it's so tense. The only way to get more is to go lower on the brain stem, to go lower into outrage, to go lower into emotion, to go lower into the lizard brain. Well, thank you so much for helping us all get a little bit wiser about this.
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
look this amazing animal up there says are you going to kill it i remember just thinking what an outrage why would i kill an animal okay paul's brother was holding a slingshot so it wasn't such a crazy question but wiki kept talking and uh he told us what it was and he said if
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Yuval Noah Harari...
getting more and more outraged at each other we just said actually i don't know the answer to that and um i would like to know like you could picture a shift in tone of the conversation of people trying to learn from each other instead of trying to judge each other i mean
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I grew up in the...
They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.
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What is MSG, and is it...
it could be found in commercial food production worldwide. So when Dr. Kwok's letter was published, the outrage was immediate. Researchers and citizens demanded a scientific enquiry into the popular additive. On one hand, this wasn’t unreasonable.
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Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
benefit to it, but I was quickly told by some corporations that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped across the ghettos of Haiti. Now, I wasn't just obsessed. I was outraged.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
But see, the rich can pay for safety and can keep getting richer, but the poor can't pay for it and they're left totally unprotected and they keep getting thrown to the ground. This is a massive and scandalous outrage.
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I am here to confuse you...
a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy jokes outraged her children was pregnant
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Bat-Eared Foxes Eat...
Beetlejuice also helps to fire out the family of bat-eared foxes and gives them plenty of time to spare their just natural busy bodies these servos have been rumbled the Foxes seem outraged
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How a handful of tech...
Of this race for attention. It's the classic race to the bottom when you have to get attention, and it's so tense. The only way to get more is to go lower on the brain stem, to go lower into outrage, to go lower into emotion, to go lower into the lizard brain. Well, thank you so much for helping us all get a little bit wiser about this.
Video examples
Bryan Stevenson: We need...
I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,
Video examples
Kenya’s Wildlife...
look this amazing animal up there says are you going to kill it i remember just thinking what an outrage why would i kill an animal okay paul's brother was holding a slingshot so it wasn't such a crazy question but wiki kept talking and uh he told us what it was and he said if
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari...
getting more and more outraged at each other we just said actually i don't know the answer to that and um i would like to know like you could picture a shift in tone of the conversation of people trying to learn from each other instead of trying to judge each other i mean
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I grew up in the...
They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.
Video examples
What is MSG, and is it...
it could be found in commercial food production worldwide. So when Dr. Kwok's letter was published, the outrage was immediate. Researchers and citizens demanded a scientific enquiry into the popular additive. On one hand, this wasn’t unreasonable.
Video examples
Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
benefit to it, but I was quickly told by some corporations that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped across the ghettos of Haiti. Now, I wasn't just obsessed. I was outraged.
Video examples
Gary Haugen: The hidden...
But see, the rich can pay for safety and can keep getting richer, but the poor can't pay for it and they're left totally unprotected and they keep getting thrown to the ground. This is a massive and scandalous outrage.
Video examples
I am here to confuse you...
a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy jokes outraged her children was pregnant
Video examples
Bat-Eared Foxes Eat...
Beetlejuice also helps to fire out the family of bat-eared foxes and gives them plenty of time to spare their just natural busy bodies these servos have been rumbled the Foxes seem outraged
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Tristan Harris
American Activist
I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.
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Sean Doolittle
American Athlete
One thing that bothers me is the way that people use veterans and troops almost as a shield. They say that's the reason they stand and that veterans deserve to be honored and respected during the anthem. But where is that outrage in taking better care of veterans?
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Chris Jordan
American Artist
We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.
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Dave Matthews
South African Musician
There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
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Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.
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James Nachtwey
American Photographer
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
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Michael Gartner
American Journalist
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
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Peter Carey
Australian Novelist
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.
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Carl T. Rowan
American Journalist
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Joan Halifax
American Activist
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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Tristan Harris
American Activist
I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.
Quote examples
Sean Doolittle
American Athlete
One thing that bothers me is the way that people use veterans and troops almost as a shield. They say that's the reason they stand and that veterans deserve to be honored and respected during the anthem. But where is that outrage in taking better care of veterans?
Quote examples
Chris Jordan
American Artist
We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.
Quote examples
Dave Matthews
South African Musician
There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
Quote examples
Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.
Quote examples
James Nachtwey
American Photographer
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
Quote examples
Michael Gartner
American Journalist
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
Quote examples
Peter Carey
Australian Novelist
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.
Quote examples
Carl T. Rowan
American Journalist
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Quote examples
Joan Halifax
American Activist
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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