How to Use indignity in a Sentence

indignity

noun

• The indignity of it all was too much to bear.
• He suffered the indignity of being forced to leave the courtroom.
• He remembers all the indignities he had to suffer in the early years of his career.
• We must endure the indignities of growing old.
• The final indignity came on the ninth green, his last hole of the day: a three-putt from 12 feet.
  — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 15 Feb. 2020
• To add to the indignity, police wouldn't even let the group march.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2018
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all — just be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all – just, be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
• In that time, he’s learned how to survive, and reframe, some of the indignities of life on the road.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2023
• For many in the city, the water is just one more indignity.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• Amy Schumer has joked about the indignity of being pregnant at the same time as Meghan Markle.
  — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
• The final indignity for Minnesota came in the stands, not on the field.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• And, in the final indignity, Williams threw down a vicious dunk off a Young lob.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• The worst indignity: His boss was one of the best drummers ever.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
• As for the misspelling of his name, Ibrahimovic isn’t the first to suffer that indignity.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• Trump was spared the indignity of being handcuffed, perp walked or placed in a cell.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Alfred deals with a lot of indignities in these first few episodes.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
• Mike really does have to bear the indignity of riding in the trunk.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
• On this night, that was just one of the many indignities heaped upon the Dodgers, who need to have their memories erased.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Hani asked about his child, and the others enduring the mounting indignities of the war.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Stumbling around the outfield wasn’t the only indignity of Willie Mays’ days in New York.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
• The customs have evolved, but the sacrifices and indignities have been there all along.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• So one of them keeps a tongue as an act of reverence and kindness to the body that is still going to go through a lot of indignities.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• Soufra shows how the stagnation of life that a refugee must endure is the greatest indignity of all.
  — Padma Lakshmi, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
• Djokovic raced out to a 5-0 lead in the first set, and no one—perhaps not even Djokovic—wanted to see Nadal suffer the indignity of being bageled.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 29 July 2024
• The final indignity lies in the fact that the women were all but forgotten.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022
• Among these many indignities of age, however, one of the worst is the potential loss of sight.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• It’s a private indignity, but even worse than the shove, or losing out on his own plans to woo Matsson.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
• The very slickness of the beauty often attests to the messiness of those original indignities.
  — Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• Such indignities won’t keep the lucky select group from leaping at the opportunity.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024