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How to use indignity in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Indignity means degradation, debasement or humiliation. Example: “He suffered the indignity of being ignored.”

Examples of indignity by meaning

nounDegradation, debasement or humiliation.

  • He suffered the indignity of being ignored.
  • The prisoners endured many indignities.

More sentences with indignity

  • From adolescent traumas to adulthood indignities, their anomie has been overdetermined.2020 March, Jess Bergman, “I’m Not Feeling Good at All”, in The Baffler, number 50. From the entry anomie
  • Not for them the indignities of life as a bungling beginner.1982, John Cassidy, The Hacky-Sack Book, page 22. From the entry naively
  • People will endure a lot of indignity to avoid being left behind without VC money when the great bifurcation takes place.2026 March, Sam Kriss, “Child's Play: Tech's New Generation and the End of Thinking”, in Harper's Magazine. From the entry permanent underclass
  • One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry biographer
  • When black women speak up about indignities, they are Sapphires.2010, C. Henderson, Imagining the Black Female Body. From the entry sapphire
  • He remembered their faces, red and idiotly merry with excited ridicule, so fiercely eager to lay indignity on someone else.1958, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, page 193. From the entry idiotly
  • She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn.1958, Martin Luther King Jr., “Rosa Parks' Arrest”, in Stride Toward Freedom. From the entry zeitgeist
  • He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.2003, James P. Coldham, Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend. From the entry without troubling the scorers
  • My parents, however, chose not to be subjected to the indignities and unequal treatment doled out in those days to Blacks in the Panama Canal Zone.1986, Gilberto Gerald, “With My Head Held Up High”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 41. From the entry Panama Canal Zone
  • With every new indignity served upon the United States by the fanatical Fidel Castro comes an immediate, and lasting, impulse to declare that enough is enough.1961 January 4, Lee Mortimer, “Why not sever all Cuban ties?”, in Glen O. Long, editor, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, volume 71, number 2…. From the entry enough is enough

Meaning of indignity

  1. noun Degradation, debasement or humiliation.
  2. noun An affront to one's dignity or pride.

Full definition of indignity

Questions about indignity in a sentence

How do you use indignity in a sentence?
Indignity is used as a noun. For example: “He suffered the indignity of being ignored.”
What is a short sentence with indignity?
“The prisoners endured many indignities.”
What does indignity mean?
Indignity means degradation, debasement or humiliation.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indignity (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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