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Poor and minority students faced other indignities as well, including unhygienic lunchrooms.
Universal school lunches have enormous potential — if the program’s flaws are fixed|A. R. Ruis|September 2, 2021|Washington Post
It’s just one of many indignities visited upon poor Francie in “The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,” Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s latest novel.
In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story|Jake Cline|May 31, 2021|Washington Post
Both times, he escaped conviction because his hold over the Republican Party remained so strong that lawmakers decided they had little choice but to spare him the indignity of an early removal.
Why a 9/11 Commission-Style Panel Isn’t Winning Backers — Yet|Philip Elliott|April 20, 2021|Time
For most of her career at Fresno State, Megan Walaitis didn’t think much of the little indignities that went along with being a women’s lacrosse player.
Colleges cut sports to save money amid the pandemic. Then came the Title IX lawsuits.|Molly Hensley-Clancy|March 25, 2021|Washington Post

They narrowly avoided having their woes in their trying 2020 season amplified with that indignity.
The Patriots’ season isn’t fixed, but at least they avoided losing to the Jets|Mark Maske|November 10, 2020|Washington Post
As a final indignity, Green alleges that he dropped two $100 bills on her end table and left.
I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007|Mark Ebner|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hand over the goodies or we could suffer some danger or indignity.
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It doesn't make you a better person because you endured the indignity and trauma of it.
On Her Own Terms: Why Brittany Maynard Has Chosen to Die|Gene Robinson|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
America may be able to survive that collective indignity, but the First Amendment is not.
Gay Marriage Vs. the First Amendment|James Poulos|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bass once suffered the indignity of being the third hottest member of 'N Sync, widely considered to be less hot than JC Chasez.
The Ice Bucket Challenge: Celebrities Promote ALS Awareness, Washboard Abs|Amy Zimmerman|August 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This rascal was owed a debt for the indignity he had offered the sahib in the village, and now he was paid in full.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Even her father's well-known madness for things of art could scarcely atone to his child for this indignity.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa
Resigned beforehand to all sorts of jests and humiliations, she had not foreseen such an excess of indignity.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue
Dr Westcott is not the only English Mason who has suffered the undeserved indignity of gross aspersion from this unclean pen.
Devil-Worship in France|Arthur Edward Waite
They at once took him into custody, and brought him back, but without any violence or indignity, to the patriarch.
Fox's Book of Martyrs|John Foxe

British Dictionary definitions for indignity

indignity

/ (ɪnˈdɪɡnɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

injury to one's self-esteem or dignity; humiliation

obsolete disgrace or disgraceful character or conduct

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