indignity

Example Sentences

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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

You can call that depressing, or an indignity, or a simple fact.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

In once again going 3-0 down after three matches, they are left to battle against the indignity of a 5-0 clean sweep.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

After everything endured by victims of the Eaton and Palisades fires, they didn’t need yet another indignity, another gut punch, another reason to throw their heads back and scream.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

As I got used to the indignity and the smell, I saw the raccoons cavort around my fireplace and dodge past me.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George