The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indignity \In*dig"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Indignities. [L. indignitas: cf. F. indignit['e]. See Indign.] Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
--Shak.
A person of so great place and worth constrained to
endure so foul indignities.
--Hooker.
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n. (plural of indignity English)
Usage examples of "indignities".
You certainly risked the indignities that they always heap on Inactives, in order to get away.
Whatever indignities he'd suffered at Belazir's hands, gross physical torture hadn't been among them.
Someone or ones is following his original orders to take vengeance on you, and me, for the indignities heaped on his very worthy soul.
Sean just didn't see either Torkel Fiske or Matthew Luzon forgetting the indignities both had suffered on Petaybee, well deserved though they had been.
Well, she told herself, she had no reason, really, to offend the dignity of another living being if she objected to indignities herself.
They were unforgiving of the insult to Ruatha, its now secondary position in the High Reaches, and they resented the individual indignities that Holders, craftsmen and farmers alike, suffered under the second Warder.
The Lady Gemma was one, and one who had suffered far more subjective brutalities and indignities than Lessa had.
And he east an angry look at T'bor, the High Reaches Weyrleader A cheer went up from the crowd and the menacing atmosphere and the Benden Weyrleaders as if they were responsible for the indignities he had suffered.
Sean just didn't see either Torkel Fiske or Matthew Luzon forgetting the indignities both had suffered on Petaybee, well-deserved though they had been.
An excellent policy, this, to offer recompense to those of your passengers who have suffered indignities while enjoying the hospitality of your firm!
My heart could never be with the race that had heaped indignities upon my princess and my son.