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indignity

[in-dig-ni-tee] / ɪnˈdɪg nɪ ti /


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Ahead of the visit, Guyana's President Irfaan Ali said his country would continue to champion the reparation issue "because slavery was the worst indignity to humankind".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The final indignity: belly fat that rendered my favorite jeans unzippable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Angels’ ultimate indignity is its own hometown newspaper doesn’t regard it highly enough to staff its games with a full-time writer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Savers may be spared the indignity of seeing the returns on their cash dwindle to near nothing - although institutions sometimes don't need an excuse to reduce savings rates.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

But the crowning indignity was a little flap, like the tongue of a shoe sewed on sideways, that served as a fly at the front of the trousers.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

In a film full of contrived indignities, this is the most maddening, suggesting that anyone watching the film is no more clever than the “Fossil Fools” audience members.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The indignities apparently did not stop at the club.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

A show about a struggling actor navigating the indignities of auditions?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Many of us were the Success Daughters who had grown up hearing that we could be anything we wanted, only to encounter barriers and indignities we hadn’t been told existed.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

They underwent the same tests and indignities that the original Mercury 7 went through, and more.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson


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