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

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

As for Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the hundreds of other blacks who nursed the city’s sick, they suffered an even worse indignity.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy