undignified

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“I move the charge of Conduct Unbecoming be replaced with Undignified Mischief.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

I have the great satisfaction of telling you that Elizabeth, calling herself Duchess-dowager of Kingston, was, this very afternoon, Undignified and unduchessed, and very narrowly escaped being burned in the hand.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

Undignified, un-dig′ni-fīd, adj. not dignified, not consistent with dignity.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Undignified abbreviations or contractions of names should never be used on a gentleman's card.

From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian

Undignified as such a treatment may seem to some of my colleagues, I shall have to take account of this clash and explain a good many of the divergencies of philosophers by it.

From Pragmatism by James, William