verb
definition
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
example
The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
definition
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
adjective
definition
Annoyed; offended
Examples of nettled in a Sentence
Miss M was much nettled when I told her I'd no longer dance to her music and I saw her talking about me to the man who owns this dreadful place.
Gay-Lussac, it is said, was nettled at the idea of a foreigner making such a discovery in Paris, and vigorously took up the study of the new substance, the result being the elaborate "Memoire sur 1'iode," which appeared in the Ann.
Nettled by the form in which the order was conveyed to him, Bredow drew his sword and ordered his trumpeter to sound the "trot," the brigade moving off in line of squadron columns at close interval in the direction in which they happened at the moment to be facing.