indignity
Example Sentences
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His daughter-in-law Linda Kirkland, a former accountant, said this was "the final indignity".
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
She said John O'Sullivan had been responsible for the indignity and degradation his father endured and he had caused misery for the family.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
“Goodbye June” mulls over the beauty of life and the indignity of death, but never fully engages with either facet of our relatively short existence.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026
Yet I must suffer the annoyance—and the implied indignity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
“You think me deluded. Tricked by my own walking fairytale. You think I came without a hope of winning— came to escape indignity by suicide!”
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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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