Becoming
appalled and deeply
indignant even though completely in the wrong.
Verb
A delusion is a false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence. Self-deluded
indignation goes one step further by demonstrating actual indignation towards the person with the correct, sane and rational position.
1. “I told the nurse she’d given me the wrong lab results and she went off on me explaining how she was the trained
medical professional and that I was just an
untrained layman. The problem with that of course is that she had actually given me the wrong fucking lab results!”
2. “Self-deluded indignation.”