indignity
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nɪ noun, plural in·dig·ni·ties.
1.
an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
2.
Obsolete. disgrace or disgraceful action.
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | injury to one's self-esteem or dignity; humiliation |
| 2. | obsolete disgrace or disgraceful character or conduct |
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Indignity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Now, because of her incredible accomplishments she must be subjected to tests, public humiliation and indignity to split hairs.
The tort is clearly not intended to provide legal redress for every slight insult or indignity that one must endure.
Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity.
Not one of these, our citizens, should ever be abandoned to the indignity of charity.
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