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indignity

[ in-dig-ni-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural in·dig·ni·ties.

an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
Synonyms: outrage
Obsolete. disgrace or disgraceful action.

indignity

/ ɪnˈdɪɡnɪtɪ /

First recorded in 1575–85; from Latin indignitās “unworthiness,” equivalent to indign(us) “undeserving, unworthy”( indign ) + -itās -ity

As a final indignity, Green alleges that he dropped two $100 bills on her end table and left.

Hand over the goodies or we could suffer some danger or indignity.

It doesn't make you a better person because you endured the indignity and trauma of it.

America may be able to survive that collective indignity, but the First Amendment is not.

Bass once suffered the indignity of being the third hottest member of 'N Sync, widely considered to be less hot than JC Chasez.

This rascal was owed a debt for the indignity he had offered the sahib in the village, and now he was paid in full.

Even her father's well-known madness for things of art could scarcely atone to his child for this indignity.

Resigned beforehand to all sorts of jests and humiliations, she had not foreseen such an excess of indignity.

Dr Westcott is not the only English Mason who has suffered the undeserved indignity of gross aspersion from this unclean pen.

They at once took him into custody, and brought him back, but without any violence or indignity, to the patriarch.

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