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[ UK /ɪndˈɪɡnɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɪɡnəˌti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

How To Use indignity In A Sentence

  • This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • A man given to indignity is capable of committing any crime, however heinous it may be.
  • The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
  • That indignity and humiliation was so great I could only go up. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bad enough I should have to think about it without suffering the indignity of attempting to record it for posterity.
  • I guess if he did have to suffer that indignity, Amnesty International would be up in arms.
  • This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
  • So he doesn't have to face the indignity of growing a disgusting brown worm in his mouth. The Sun
  • Passing off toys to another church means that you accept a measure of indignity. Christianity Today
  • But lives can be saved and many others spared indignity and anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
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