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"He's too soft of a character to be our leader," seems to be grammatically correct. Or is it?

The sentence in question, sounds like part of a dialogue. So in the context of a spoken line, it is grammatically acceptable. That said, it is a very clumsy and clunky sentence. The "of" is superfl …
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Can "indignantly" be used in a situation where the person it's applied to is looking down on...

But yes she CAN feel indignant. In fact it is probably the right word choice, if you are trying to convey an extreme sense of entitlement. She was so outraged by the breach of social protocol of b …
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