undignified
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“I move the charge of Conduct Unbecoming be replaced with Undignified Mischief.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
I have the great satisfaction of telling you that Elizabeth, calling herself Duchess-dowager of Kingston, was, this very afternoon, Undignified and unduchessed, and very narrowly escaped being burned in the hand.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
Undignified," she repeated; "it stopped him from coming, anyway.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
Undignified, un-dig′ni-fīd, adj. not dignified, not consistent with dignity.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Undignified abbreviations or contractions of names should never be used on a gentleman's card.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian
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