indignity
Example Sentences
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They accept the indignities of age as they accept everything, with unblinking eyes and a saving humor.
Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
Over the years, losers have suffered the indignity and stress of taking the SAT, performing a stand-up comedy routine that their friends wrote, or spending up to 24 hours in a Waffle House.
Her acting is grounded in the particulars of an aging body and the indignities and frustrations of daily living.
From Los Angeles Times
He would probably laugh his toothy laugh at the absurdity of it, because he was well aware of the first absurd indignity of his life in Lubbock.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
