as in insults
an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings
minor indignities such as intentionally mispronouncing a person's name
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Recent Examples of indignities
There are collateral issues too, involving the indignities of sponsorship and the inequalities of women’s pay, which certainly weren’t in the Million Dollar Baby playbook.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
For decades, pledges have submitted to the indignities of hazing because the practice was seen as legitimatizing, even beneficial.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Yet when Roy warns Donald against investing in Atlantic City casinos, Donald quickly turns on him, pushing his mentor into virtual exile that involves hurling verbal insults and inflicting practical indignities.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The very slickness of the beauty often attests to the messiness of those original indignities.
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
For decades, pledges have submitted to the indignities of hazing because the practice was seen as legitimatizing, even beneficial.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Yet when Roy warns Donald against investing in Atlantic City casinos, Donald quickly turns on him, pushing his mentor into virtual exile that involves hurling verbal insults and inflicting practical indignities.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The very slickness of the beauty often attests to the messiness of those original indignities.
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Indignities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indignities. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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