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Nettled   /nˈɛtəld/   Listen
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Nettle  v. t.  (past & past part. nettled; pres. part. nettling)  To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. "The princes were so nettled at the scandal of this affront, that every man took it to himself."






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"Nettled" Quotes from Famous Books



... all." The detective, nettled by his jeering smile, spoke hastily. "On further inquiry I learned from one of the servants today that Miss Whitney had on the same dress Wednesday morning, when her screams aroused the household, which she wore at dinner the ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... philosophic, impassive accent of her voice, and not feeling at all flattered, the young man added in rather a nettled tone: ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross

... she said, a little nettled that he should be unsatisfied with her company, "you didn't mention Denys specially and she is always at the Blanket Club on Mondays, so I didn't even tell her I was coming, but I did bring Maudie, only we got late somehow and there wasn't time to bring her round, so I left her on the other ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

... the fate of our Ambassador In China, and was sorely nettled; But think, my Lord, we should not pass it o'er Till all this matter's fairly settled; And here's the mode occurs to me:— As none of our Nobility, Tho' for their own most gracious King (They would kiss hands, or—anything), Can be persuaded to go thro' This farce-like trick ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... courted, and this rather nettled him; however, he soon learned that she received nobody except a few religious friends of her ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various


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