indignity
Example Sentences
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This is only the second-most-regrettable indignity visited upon Buddy Holly in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, but it’s still pretty infuriating.
Cubicle dwellers at a Texas software company endure everyday corporate indignities, including paper jams and smug bosses asking if they got the memo about cover sheets for the TPS reports.
She absorbs every tragic indignity with the utmost calm, whether it’s a woman’s coldly appraising glance or a man’s tidy valuation of the life growing inside her.
From Los Angeles Times
Drivers whose converters have been swiped are now experiencing a second indignity: Thousands of Prius owners are ahead of them in line for the same part, and the delays could stretch on for months.
From Los Angeles Times
In a citation, the committee chair Anita Felicelli praised the stories for capturing “the sometimes-startling indignities of race and immigrant experience, and the challenges of being a body that is going through the human condition.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
