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What (who) is Indignity - definition
Indignity
·noun Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.
indignity
(indignities)
If you talk about the indignity of doing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant. (FORMAL)
Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters...
= humiliation
N-VAR: oft the N of -ing/n
indignity
n.
1) to inflict an indignity on
2) to suffer indignities
Examples of use of Indignity
1. But collie crosses Tina and Kate were spared this indignity.
2. Not for Nikki the indignity of unfashionably wobbly lady bits.
3. Call it victim consumerism: classless examination by indignity.
4. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania were subjected to the same indignity.
5. Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.