How To Use Indignity In A Sentence
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This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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A man given to indignity is capable of committing any crime, however heinous it may be.
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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.
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That indignity and humiliation was so great I could only go up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bad enough I should have to think about it without suffering the indignity of attempting to record it for posterity.
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I guess if he did have to suffer that indignity, Amnesty International would be up in arms.
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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
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So he doesn't have to face the indignity of growing a disgusting brown worm in his mouth.
The Sun
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Passing off toys to another church means that you accept a measure of indignity.
Christianity Today
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But lives can be saved and many others spared indignity and anxiety.
Times, Sunday Times
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I fear my nose may suffer the same indignity.
The Sun
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The chairman suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the meeting.
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I bought books I did not want to save them from this indignity.
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One can only conjecture about the discomfort and indignity that Sharp, an asthmatic vegan, suffered in his quest, tramping up muddy tracks in the Appalachian mountains, where one community tried to convince him chicken was a vegetable.
Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
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I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted.
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He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity.
The Song of The Dodo
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Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play!
Times, Sunday Times
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Passing off toys to another church means that you accept a measure of indignity.
Christianity Today
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The indignity of incontinence pants followed.
The Sun
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Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play!
Times, Sunday Times
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We have already committed the ultimate indignity on them - we have taken their lives.
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The psychologist Alfred Adler concluded that middle children, who had neither suffered the indignity of being "dethroned" like the eldest sibling, nor the pampered indulgence of the youngest, had the best chance of growing into successful, well-adjusted adults.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters.
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What is the grand purpose towards which he must suffer this indignity, this loss of sense after sense until he is walled in senselessly, no hope of escape?
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He then suffered the ultimate indignity, in losing - not to a Croatian qualifier - but a Brit.
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It would rather let them go out into the world illiterate or innumerate rather than suffer the supposed indignity of being told how to do something properly.
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Foreign rule, with all of its humiliation and indignity, is still a living memory.
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Tears did not fall from her father’s eyes — not then, as her mother gasped her last; not later, when she herself wailed lustily at the indignity of being thrust out of the womb; and not after, when both mother and child were each bundled as appropriate, in shroud and blanket respectively.
Archive 2003-01-01
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Early on, he suffers the indignity of being three shots behind an Englishman.
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However, if their rulers take the path of self-aggrandizement, which is virtually inevitable in the absence of accountability, then these people will begin to experience indignity and eventually they will revolt, often to settle for a new ruler who is perceived as more benign and dignity-respecting, but not necessarily democratic.
Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics
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If it is the indignity of sin that offends you, you still have a standard higher than the standard of goodness - the standard of your own dignity, your own inviolable self.
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Victims face decades of indignity and torment from which, they argue, only death can release them.
The Sun
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Nowhere does she explain in a meaningful way that it is also a reaction to poverty, imperialism, and indignity.
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Each year 40,000 elderly people are forced to suffer this indignity.
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“I thought not, — I meant not,” said she, more and more confounded, “to submit to any indignity, though my pride, in an exigence so peculiar, may give way, for a while, to convenience.”
Cecilia
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And are we clear that we will not add to the burdens of another through punishment and indignity?
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But splitting his responsibilities with another MP would at least save him the indignity of being sacked.
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The actor faced further indignity when his father apologised on his behalf, urging his son's legions of fans to forgive him.
Times, Sunday Times
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They suffered the indignity of having their pictures splashed all over the papers.
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Lydia wasn't about to suffer this indignity at the hands of an upstart brat of a girl.
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He considered indignity a small price to pay if he could continue to provide for them.
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Clint suffered the indignity of being called 'Puppy' in front of his girlfriend.
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Bruce stews with indignity (and Nelson has one unforgettable meltdown), but at times in Act 2 the endeavor seemed in danger of devolving into a shouting contest.
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I had to endure the indignity of being strip-searched for drugs.
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils.
CHAPTER XXI
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The moms would endure that indignity, but it was just more than a father's pride could handle.
Christianity Today
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Before that indignity, though, Capra's warm-hearted fantasies and celebrations of American exceptionalism — including "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) — made him one of the most successful filmmakers in America.
Remarkable Hollywood Lives
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The truth of it all is, not that you once larruped that fellow Bentley, but that old Aimes wishes to put a sly indignity upon me by misusing one who has been entertained at my house.
The Jucklins A Novel
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Organised competitive sport is agony for many children: it can lead to humiliation and indignity.
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The final indignity was to lose a home bonus point in the dying minutes as the descending darkness became both literal and metaphoric.
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Passing off toys to another church means that you accept a measure of indignity.
Christianity Today
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That Aberdeen game saw him enter the fray as a first-half substitute, only to suffer the indignity of being hooked later in the game.
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Of course the ultimate indignity, worse even than going home without chuckwalla data, is death.
The Song of The Dodo
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Spanking is an indignity to a teenager.
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He's still steaming with indignity at the whole thing, and of course, he's quite right to be upset.
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Nor did he suffer the indignity of losing his mind -- extreme old age left him with his faculties intact.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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To add extra indignity to his humiliation he is suffering from a bout of hiccups that threatens to enter the Guinness Book of Records.
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So after much weeping moaning and gnashing of teeth I was finally forced to suffer the indignity of sitting on Santa's lap or rather knee.
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Would you not agree that no person should be made to suffer this indignity?
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The main entrance door is defaced with graffiti, which should shock the parents of youngsters guilty of this profound indignity.
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When Lawrence of Arabia was killed I read in an article contributed by a friend that it was his habit to ride his motorbicycle at an excessive speed with the notion that an accident would end his life while he was still in full possession of his powers and so spare him the indignity of old age.
The Summing Up
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That means additional bureaucracies, therefore additional cost and also additional indignity to the older person.
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These are speculations that stem from our knowledge of a more familiar side of scandal: lies, deceit and indignity.
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The indignity of that day stayed with us the entire year, increasing our determination.
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My mother consequently suffered pain and indignity during her final days of illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The common name of "cow-spit," with the implied indignity to our "rural divinity," becomes singularly ludicrous when we observe not only the frequent generous display of the suds samples, thousands upon thousands in a single small meadow, but the further fact that each mass is so exactly landed upon the central stalk of grass or other plant -- "spitted" through its centre, as it were.
My Studio Neighbors
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Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play!
Times, Sunday Times
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She was the first direct member of the royal family to face the indignity of such a grilling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final indignity came when one descended on the altar during mass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Littlebody grumbles of indignity - ‘the huckstering / - jumping around in your green top hat ‘- but the laws laid down so long ago hold true and he offers up his purse of gold.’
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No one deserves the indignity and the despair of playing an never-ending waiting game for treatment.
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Then came the final indignity.
The Sun
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A story circulated quite recently that a leading British professional, who will remain nameless to preserve his reputation, once suffered the indignity of a humiliating beating while at school - against the spectacled class boffin.
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There's some heavyhanded sexual humor as well, including a missionary whose naked "fundament" suffers the indignity of a tattoo and a young lady who falls into Macklyn's lap much to his obvious pleasure.
The Biblicals
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But a series of careless errors let the Scots back in the game, with the final indignity being the bizarre own goal.
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Others, touching on areas that range from elements of sexuality, to the treatment of the dead and dying, to bodily indignity and even profanity and sacrilege, are of course more controversial.
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You have tons of information, but not one sense of feeling… not one sense of one's own sense of indignity.
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The indignity of youth is compounded hugely by being in the sticks.
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Mort Dieu! how often did he complain of slight and insult from Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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As Remnick pointed out, it is impossible to imagine any former British prime minister subjecting themself to such an indignity, and it is to be hoped that no future one will put up with it, either.
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The Switzerland defender endured the indignity of being removed at half-time for his own good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recently a Nomura executive suffered the indignity of being taken hostage by a client wielding a samurai sword.
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The governor suffered the indignity of being told by union reps what regime he would run.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play!
Times, Sunday Times
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He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination.
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Slowly, the animal adapts to the experience of being loved which includes the indignity of being "dressed in frillies, forced to lap / tea with your sister".
When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit
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No one is actually paying them much extra attention (and I have seen men in kilts before at IAH and other US airports) and we all continue toward the belts/bins… One of the "kilted" men was chosen for a random (as he did not alarm) secondary it seems; they had "placed" him into their magic plexiglass cube of indignity to do the pat down.
Ars Technica
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Millions were still suffering discrimination, stigma and indignity worldwide.
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My mother consequently suffered pain and indignity during her final days of illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Angry people tend to feel that they are morally right, that any blocking or changing of their plans is an unbearable indignity and that they should NOT have to suffer this way.
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It could have spared my wife much unnecessary suffering and indignity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The indignity still rankles with the Olympic and world indoor champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suffer the indignity of having to say I am sorry in front all those people.
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The governor suffered the indignity of being told by union reps what regime he would run.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the latest indignity, Hittner ordered Fastow to report to the downtown Federal Detention Center instead of the more upscale calaboose he'd requested.
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Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play!
Times, Sunday Times
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It could have spared my wife much unnecessary suffering and indignity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
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Thus did he deceitfully save himself the indignity of being put out, and rob us of the satisfaction of putting him out, but he came, and he came often, each time getting away with an able-bodied man's share of plunder.
The Golden Poppy
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The indignity still rankles with the Olympic and world indoor champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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One way the Ralpha Continental riders might have avoided the indignity of having to bathe in ice would have been to opt for the resilient, laterally stiff, vertically compliant, and horticulturally deciduous ride of birch wood:
Anarchy Or Irony? The Veneer of Rebellion
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Get out there with your canes and string and spare their indignity.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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This is surely the final indignity for MPs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters.
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There is an inescapable irony that what began for him - and indeed the donors or loaners - as an aspirational dream of ermine has ended in the social indignity that only the threat of the policeman's knock can bring.
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It hath been therefore a great felicity to these kingdoms, that the heirs to titles and large estates, have a weakness in their eyes, a tenderness in their constitutions, are not able to bear the pain and indignity of whipping; and as the mother rightly expresses it, could never take to their book; yet are well enough qualified to sign a receipt for half a year's rent, to put their names (_rightly spelt_) to
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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Please ensure we do not have to face the shame and indignity of expulsion from a major tournament.
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My mother consequently suffered pain and indignity during her final days of illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The alliance did him no good; it was revealed, to the court of Nineveh by the Assyrian party in Ephraim, and Hoshea was immediately seized as a rebellious vasal, shut up in prison, and apparently treated with the utmost indignity.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The demotion will necessitate the indignity of having to qualify for next season's Champions League group stages.
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The exercise of the powers to direct removal was likely to involve both public cost and personal hardship or indignity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bold investment across the regions ought to be made to spare people the indignity and want that follow business closures and industrial decline.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another two will suffer the indignity of missing out on the top four.
Times, Sunday Times
