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umbrageous

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um·bra·geous  (m-brjs)
adj.
1. Affording or forming shade; shady.
2. Easily offended; irritable.

um·brageous·ly adv.

umbrageous [ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs]
adj
shady or shading
umbrageously  adv
umbrageousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.umbrageousumbrageous - filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
shaded - protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope
2.umbrageousumbrageous - angered at something unjust or wrong; "an indignant denial"; "incensed at the judges' unfairness"; "a look of outraged disbelief"; "umbrageous at the loss of their territory"
angry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"


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Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
Occasionally there were intervals of pasturage, and the banks of the river were fringed with willows and cottonwood, so that its course might be traced from the hilltops, winding under an umbrageous covert, through a wide sunburnt landscape.
He put the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while, slowly and silently, under the umbrageous trees.
 
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