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• v  strike with disgust or revulsion
• v  violate the sacred character of a place or language
• v  force (someone) to have sex against their will
• s  angered at something unjust or wrong
  a look of outraged disbelief

• In April, Hollywood actor Richard Gere outraged India's prudes by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness rally.
• In 1997 she outraged observers with a collection that questioned the very shape of women's bodies.
• I'm preparing to be outraged or as outraged as one can get at the Tonys.

• shock
• offend
• scandalize
• scandalise
• appal
• appall
• outrage
• desecrate
• profane
• violate
• rape
• ravish
• assault
• dishonor
• dishonour
• indignant
• incensed
• umbrageous

News & Articles

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• School suicide note assignment has parents outraged
  Parents are outraged at an assignment their kids had to complete at a pricey private school on the Upper West Side. Students in an English class at York Prep School, were required to write first-person suicide notes. They were instructed …
  June 12, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York
• Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Outraged by Shortcomings of the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013
  LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) Outraged by Shortcomings of the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013. (S. 1009) poses serious limitations.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire
• Jackson family ‘outraged at prospect’ of Debbie Rowe being Paris’ legal guardian
  The Jackson family members are said to be outraged at the prospect of Paris Jackson’s biological mother, Debbie Rowe, being the teenager’s legal...
  June 11, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in WashingtonTV
  The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days,Obama said at the beginning of a news conference in the White House.
• President Bush in Reuters India
  Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma, where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear,Bush told the world body in his annual speech.
• David Letterman in CNN Political Ticker
  So, I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke,Letterman said. "I'm sorry about it and I'll try to do...