umbrageous
Americanadjective
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creating or providing shade; shady.
an umbrageous tree.
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apt to take offense.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- umbrageously adverb
- umbrageousness noun
Etymology
Origin of umbrageous
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Example Sentences
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The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Voters are urged, for instance, to pick List No. 169, the one approved by the umbrageous Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a town surrounded by rich tidal rivers and marshes, a serene haven of antebellum houses on large lots, of streets crisscrossing through umbrageous tunnels of live oak and banks of riotous azaleas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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