How To Use Undignified In A Sentence
-
He could bring grace and dignity to his work even when he was playing ungraceful, undignified people.
-
EU leaders were gathering in Brussels last night promising there would be no repeat of the undignified horse-trading of their last treaty in Nice.
-
In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains.
Times, Sunday Times
-
We had returned nearly to the hotel in this undignified manner, the throng of persecutors gathering strength as we entered the streets, till we were completely surrounded -- those in front walking backwards, and stopping every now and then suddenly, that we might be jostled against by those who were thronging behind, all bellowing the pandemoniacal chorus, without words and still less tune.
Sea-Gift. A Novel.
-
She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified.
Peter Pan
-
I was made to lie down on his couch, stick my legs in the air, wiggle my toes, push against him and generally do all manner of undignified things.
-
But something that is by definition inefficient is fairly certain also to be undignified.
-
There being nothing so undignified as a pitted cherry, I suggest that you leave them unpitted, which is the traditional way, and simply warn everyone to beware of the stones.
-
While I can imagine that he might value his daughter's ridicule of the undignified and embarrassing aspects of his final illness as a farcical, tragicomic gag at his own expense, I believe that he would be "inexpressibly sad," a phrase he used, for the world to learn that he died unliked and unloved by one of his own children.
A Roaring Literary Lion
-
There was an undignified scramble for the best seats.
-
The problem, say some critics in China, is that director Hu Mei's "undignified" version of Confucius is turning the originator of Confucianism into a kung fu-fighting romancer, which is in contrast to their image of him as a saintly philosopher who espoused fundamental, traditional values of harmony and piety towards elders that many modern Chinese still cling to.
Kung Fu Cinema
-
The Obama-friendly Washington Post described as undignified and unpresidential.
FOXNews.com
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He was reluctant to strike such an undignified pose before his girlfriend.
-
It would have been an undignified episode for any politician - never mind the First Minister of Scotland.
-
You will recall the undignified use Sir Thomas More would have us put it to, and how there was no money at all in the Republic of Plato, and in that later community for which he wrote his Laws an iron coinage of austere appearance and doubtful efficacy ....
A Modern Utopia
-
The best team doesn't always win but it would be a shallow victory if winning meant resorting to undignified means.
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Temperatures rose as they failed to agree, and the pair ended up in an undignified scuffle.
-
Yesterday, in a most undignified moment, I answered the doorbell having forgotten the Slinky jiggling restlessly at my buttocks.
Telling Tails
-
He came to parliament and made a poignant and dignified departure after a bungling and undignified three weeks.
-
Ramirez ducked behind a crenel, pulling Rakael down with him into an undignified heap.
-
Once the books had been launched, however, we were locked into an undignified struggle for publicity.
-
If the post-war French and the British represent two rather caricatured but nevertheless illuminative models of how to grapple with the end of empire, we have unfortunately elected to adopt the violent and undignified Gaulist approach.
Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devil's Decade
-
The kill is no better, as a fox will be torn to shreds by the hounds, thus completing a miserable and undignified exit for the animal.
-
It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
-
They will feel it is undignified and trivialising the law.
-
This will ensure the patient dies with dignity, instead dying the undignified death that some terminally ill patients are reduced to having.
-
She sat in a very undignified position, with only the dusty ground on which to rest her bottom which condemned her to exceptional discomfort.
-
When you've gone to all the trouble of getting dressed up in your best clobber, it's so undignified.
-
He hit the bottle and his departure from a scene he'd done so much to entertain, outrage and modernise was messy, undignified and sad.
-
There was an undignified scramble for the free drinks.
-
Planning would be easier and there would be none of the undignified scramble to get things through ahead of an election.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Sometimes it feels a little undignified, but I never seem to get tired of getting drunk.
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
And you can only imagine the undignified scramble to get on that aeroplane.
The Sun
-
It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
-
It's rough and demanding and I feel it would be undignified and demeaning for the fair sex to be taking part in such a spectacle.
-
I tried to get my hands on it at every available opportunity and drove it in a highly undignified manner (sorry, Dad).
-
It was a dish I received with mixed feelings, because attractive and delightful as it was, with its rather delightful accompaniment of orange sauce and ice cream, I found it a tad undignified to eat.
-
hearing and telling the latest news" (no undignified or improper mode of recreation in a city where newspapers were unknown), whilst they are condemned as "garrulous," "frivolous," "full of curiosity," and
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
-
The International Skating Union is up at arms about it all, promising point reductions for what they call undignified movements.
CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2002
-
What an undignified and inhumane way to treat people.
-
The pen he holds as a gun in the opening lines suggests Heaney is a kind of stickup man at first, taking aim at his father for doing undignified work, which Heaney must "look down" on.
Archive 2009-01-01
-
With humanity forced into the undignified retreat of its collective beds, the processes of Earth come into their own.
-
The genre was gasping for breath, but it would be a good decade or more before the oater died a rather undignified death.
-
And here one sport in particular must not be forgotten, which in the eyes of many 'folkish' minded people is considered vulgar and undignified: boxing.
Mein Kampf
-
It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
My first exit was a rather undignified tumble onto the tarmac.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Trying to stand on shaking legs, she managed to get up and walk two paces, but then she collapsed into an undignified heap.
-
On seeing me, she wailed mournfully with a mixture of imploration to get her down and shame at her undignified predicament.
-
And access via the side door means an undignified clamber over the back.
-
We walked for an hour and a half or so, well beyond the limits of the town to the point where the road and pavement came to an undignified end by a stony beach and a hollow of stagnant water.
-
Her helmet had fallen off in the undignified tumble.
-
It is said to follow a rather undignified incident involving a flying cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The minister made an undignified retreat from his earlier position.
-
"Many men are genuinely proud of their culinary skill and see nothing undignified or unmasculine in being able to turn out a batch of fluffy biscuits."
-
“A form of language spoken by millions of people … can surely not be called undignified,” he argued, finding “real dignity … in the colloquial language of the people, not in the stilted artificial style of books.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
-
We believe this process, which enables a portion of human remains to be flushed down a drain, to be undignified," said Patrick McGee, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester.
-
Barstaff exchange looks as she giggles excitedly wrapping her legs over him as he does little to discourage this undignified behaviour.
-
She felt that receiving the child food directly into little personal bowls was undignified and wasteful, since much of it slopped over the sides.
-
The mascot by its very nature is ridiculous and relatively undignified, which is why people like them.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
-
It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
-
Adams, the 33-year-old Jamaican batsman, deserved better than this undignified end to his reign.
-
Against the background of all this shameless capitalism, a rather undignified saga rumbles on in the local press.
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best.
-
For a moment, it looked like the undignified stunt would turn nasty.
-
Male celebrities all over the globe began to collide in a frankly undignified heap as they tried to attract her attention.
-
By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
-
Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
-
It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions.
-
He was reluctant to strike such an undignified pose before his girlfriend.
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It was the first time in four years a Portugal player had seen red and brought their proud record to an undignified end.
The Sun
-
We have one that's unsafe, disorderly, illegal and undignified.
-
Many people would enjoy their lives more if they didn't have the fear that they may have a slow, agonising and undignified death.
The Sun
-
It's all very undignified and rather sad.
The Sun
-
A totally undignified scramble saw him almost barged to the ground.
The Sun
-
It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.
This week's new singles
-
Then, recalling her undignified conduct in the ball game with him, she felt ashamed.
'Lizbeth of the Dale
-
His skis crossed and he sat down in a most undignified manner.
-
In that case -- the _Odyssey_ being later than the original kernel of the Iliad -- the _Odyssey_ ought to give us gods as undignified and unworthy as those exhibited by the later continuators of the _Iliad_.
Homer and His Age
-
An undignified skid and a few slides later found him at the entrance to the parlor, where the voices had retreated to.
-
As if on key, she utters one of her old undignified yelps because her newly distinguished father walks into the room.
-
Shoulder injuries brought his career to an undignified end in 2004 after three defeats.
The Sun
-
It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
-
I am not going to respond further to your undignified arguments which tend to start with “LOL,” “psst,” or “yanno”.
Matthew Yglesias » Longstanding Problems Are Still Problematic
-
Kamel didn't mention price, but said the exclusiveness of luxury companies separates them from the ‘mad and undignified’ products and practices of the mass-market consumer companies.
-
In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains.
Times, Sunday Times
-
In our house it was not merely that no attention was given to literature, to poetry; but poetry, especially Russian poetry, was looked upon as something quite undignified and vulgar; my grandmother did not even call it poetry, but ‘doggrel verses’; every author of such doggrel was, in her opinion, either a confirmed toper or a perfect idiot.
Punin and Baburin
-
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It was a most undignified noise that sounded like a squeak to her ears.
-
Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse.
-
He was reluctant to strike such an undignified pose before his girlfriend.
-
She said: 'What an undignified end to a career fighting for their country.
The Sun
-
The government felt that such a name was undignified, which may be the only time in American history that a state, city, county, river, lake, creek, or gambling casino was not given an Indian name.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY