indignity
Example Sentences
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Dog poo bags are not the only indignity the famous defensive frontier has to endure.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
You can call that depressing, or an indignity, or a simple fact.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
Even a draw would ensure they do not suffer the indignity of a clean sweep – England have been beaten 5-0 on three previous Ashes tours.
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025
Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
The wages Winn-Dixie is offering—$6 and a couple of dimes to start with—are not enough, I decide, to compensate for this indignity.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Vocabulary lists containing indignity
Things Fall Apart
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"My Wonder Horse," Vocabulary from the short story
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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